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localrepo: add branchtip() method for faster single-branch lookups

For the PyPy repo with 744 branches and 843 branch heads, this brings
hg log -r default over NFS from:

   CallCount    Recursive    Total(ms)   Inline(ms) module:lineno(function)
        3249            0      1.3222      1.3222   <open>
        3244            0      0.6211      0.6211   <method 'close' of 'file' objects>
        3243            0      0.0800      0.0800   <method 'read' of 'file' objects>
        3241            0      0.0660      0.0660   <method 'seek' of 'file' objects>
        3905            0      0.0476      0.0476   <zlib.decompress>
        3281            0      2.6756      0.0472   mercurial.changelog:182(read)
       +3281            0      2.5256      0.0453   +mercurial.revlog:881(revision)
       +3276            0      0.0389      0.0196   +mercurial.changelog:28(decodeextra)
       +6562            0      0.0123      0.0123   +<method 'split' of 'str' objects>
       +6562            0      0.0408      0.0073   +mercurial.encoding:61(tolocal)
       +3281            0      0.0054      0.0054   +<method 'index' of 'str' objects>
        3241            0      2.2464      0.0456   mercurial.revlog:818(_loadchunk)
       +3241            0      0.6205      0.6205   +<method 'close' of 'file' objects>
       +3241            0      0.0765      0.0765   +<method 'read' of 'file' objects>
       +3241            0      0.0660      0.0660   +<method 'seek' of 'file' objects>
       +3241            0      1.4209      0.0135   +mercurial.store:374(__call__)
       +3241            0      0.0122      0.0107   +mercurial.revlog:810(_addchunk)
        3281            0      2.5256      0.0453   mercurial.revlog:881(revision)
       +3280            0      0.0175      0.0175   +mercurial.revlog:305(rev)
       +3281            0      2.2819      0.0119   +mercurial.revlog:847(_chunkraw)
       +3281            0      0.0603      0.0083   +mercurial.revlog:945(_checkhash)
       +3281            0      0.0051      0.0051   +mercurial.revlog:349(flags)
       +3281            0      0.0040      0.0040   +<mercurial.mpatch.patches>
       13682            0      0.0479      0.0248   <method 'decode' of 'str' objects>
       +7418            0      0.0228      0.0076   +encodings.utf_8:15(decode)
          +1            0      0.0003      0.0000   +encodings:71(search_function)
        3248            0      1.3995      0.0246   mercurial.scmutil:218(__call__)
       +3248            0      1.3222      1.3222   +<open>
       +3248            0      0.0235      0.0184   +os.path:80(split)
       +3248            0      0.0084      0.0068   +mercurial.scmutil:92(__call__)
Time: real 2.750 secs (user 0.680+0.000 sys 0.360+0.000)

down to:

   CallCount    Recursive    Total(ms)   Inline(ms) module:lineno(function)
          55           31      0.0197      0.0163   <__import__>
          +1            0      0.0006      0.0002   +mercurial.context:8(<module>)
          +1            0      0.0042      0.0001   +mercurial.revlog:12(<module>)
          +1            0      0.0002      0.0001   +mercurial.match:8(<module>)
          +1            0      0.0003      0.0001   +mercurial.dirstate:7(<module>)
          +1            0      0.0057      0.0001   +mercurial.changelog:8(<module>)
           1            0      0.0117      0.0032   mercurial.localrepo:525(_readbranchcache)
        +844            0      0.0015      0.0015   +<binascii.unhexlify>
        +845            0      0.0010      0.0010   +<method 'split' of 'str' objects>
        +843            0      0.0045      0.0009   +mercurial.encoding:61(tolocal)
        +843            0      0.0004      0.0004   +<method 'setdefault' of 'dict' objects>
          +1            0      0.0003      0.0003   +<method 'close' of 'file' objects>
           3            0      0.0029      0.0029   <method 'read' of 'file' objects>
           9            0      0.0018      0.0018   <open>
         990            0      0.0017      0.0017   <binascii.unhexlify>
          53            0      0.0016      0.0016   mercurial.demandimport:43(__init__)
         862            0      0.0015      0.0015   <_codecs.utf_8_decode>
         862            0      0.0037      0.0014   <method 'decode' of 'str' objects>
        +862            0      0.0023      0.0008   +encodings.utf_8:15(decode)
         981            0      0.0011      0.0011   <method 'split' of 'str' objects>
         861            0      0.0046      0.0009   mercurial.encoding:61(tolocal)
        +861            0      0.0037      0.0014   +<method 'decode' of 'str' objects>
         862            0      0.0023      0.0008   encodings.utf_8:15(decode)
        +862            0      0.0015      0.0015   +<_codecs.utf_8_decode>
           4            0      0.0008      0.0008   <method 'close' of 'file' objects>
         179          154      0.0202      0.0004   mercurial.demandimport:83(__getattribute__)
         +36           11      0.0199      0.0003   +mercurial.demandimport:55(_load)
         +72            0      0.0001      0.0001   +mercurial.demandimport:83(__getattribute__)
         +36            0      0.0000      0.0000   +<getattr>
           1            0      0.0015      0.0004   mercurial.tags:148(_readtagcache)
Time: real 0.060 secs (user 0.030+0.000 sys 0.010+0.000)

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>