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extensions: load help from hgext.__index__ as a fallback this time

Prior to 843418dc0b1b, `hgext.__index__` was consulted first if present, which
caused the longer help from the extension modules to be ignored, even when
available.  But that change causes a bunch of test failures when the pyoxidized
binary bundles *.pyc in the binary, saying the there's no help topic for
`hg help $disabled_extension` and suggesting the use of `--keyword`, rather than
showing a summary and indicating that it is disabled.  Current failures were in
test-check-help.t, test-extension.t, test-help.t, and test-qrecord.t.

Ideally, we would read the various *.pyc files from memory and slurp in the
docstring, but I know that they used to not be readable as resources, and I
can't figure out how to make it work now.  So maybe 3.9 and/or the current
PyOxidizer doesn't support it yet.  I got closer in py2exe with
`importlib.resources.open_binary("hgext", "rebase.pyc")`, but `open_binary()` on
*.pyc fails in pyoxidizer.[1]  Either way, the *.pyc can't be passed to
`ast.parse()` as `extensions._disabledcmdtable()` is doing, so I'm setting that
aside for now.

[1] https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer/issues/649

= Mercurial 6.3.1 =

 * memory-usage: fix `hg log --follow --rev R F` space complexity (dcb2581e33be)
 * Improve portability and robustness of test harness
 * hg-core: relax dependencies pinning
 * matcher: fix issues regex flag contained in pattern (issue6759)
 * matcher: do not prepend '.*' to pattern using ^ after flags
 * packaging: refresh dependency hashes (issue6750)
 * cffi: fix a bytes vs str issue on macOS when listing directories
 * commit: properly consider file include and exclude options when closing branch
 * dirstate-v2: do not put the dirstate data file in a transaction

= Mercurial 6.3 =

== New Features ==

 * testlib: add `--raw-sha1` option to `f`
 * rhg: add `config.rhg` helptext
 * config: add alias from `hg help rhg` to `hg help rust`
 * rhg: add a config option to fall back immediately
 * bundle: introduce a --exact option
 * perf-bundle: add a new command to benchmark bundle creation time
 * perf-bundle: accept --rev arguments
 * perf-bundle: accept --type argument
 * perf-unbundle: add a perf command to time the unbundle operation
 * perf: introduce a benchmark for delta-find
 * contrib: add support for rhel9
 * phase-shelve: Implement a 'shelve.store' experimental config
 * debug-delta-find: introduce a quiet mode
 * sort-revset: introduce a `random` variant
 * phase: introduce a dedicated requirement for the `archived` phase
 * rebase: add boolean config item rebase.store-source
 * rhg: make [rhg status -v] work when it needs no extra output
 * rhg: support "!" syntax for disabling extensions
 * rhg: add debugrhgsparse command to help figure out bugs in rhg
 * rhg: add sparse support
 * rhg-status: add support for narrow clones
 * templates: add filter to reverse list
 * contrib: add pull_logger extension
 * revset: handle wdir() in `roots()`
 * revset: handle wdir() in `sort(..., -topo)`
 * rhg: support tweakdefaults
 * rhg: parallellize computation of [unsure_is_modified]

== Default Format Change ==

These changes affect newly created repositories (or new clones) done with
Mercurial 6.3.

== New Experimental Features ==

== Bug Fixes ==

 * shelve: demonstrate that the state is different across platforms (issue6735)
 * shelve: in test for trailing whitespace, strip commit (issue6735)
 * shelve: remove strip and rely on prior state (issue6735)
 * tests: fix http-bad-server expected errors for python 3.10 (issue6643)
 * status: let `--no-copies` override `ui.statuscopies`
 * releasenotes: use re.MULTILINE mode when checking admonitions
 * rhg: fallback to slow path on invalid patterns in hgignore
 * Fix a bunch of leftover str/bytes issues from Python 3 migration
 * keepalive: ensure `close_all()` actually closes all cached connections
 * lfs: fix blob corruption when tranferring with workers on posix
 * lfs: avoid closing connections when the worker doesn't fork
 * dirstate-v2: update constant that wasn't kept in sync
 * dirstate-v2: fix edge case where entries aren't sorted
 * upgrade: no longer keep all revlogs in memory at any point
 * rust-status: save new dircache even if just invalidated
 * dirstate-v2: hash the source of the ignore patterns as well
 * rhg: fallback when encountering ellipsis revisions
 * shelve: handle empty parents and nodestoremove in shelvedstate (issue6748)
 * profile: prevent a crash when line number is unknown
 * tags-fnode-cache: do not repeatedly open the filelog in a loop
 * tags-fnode-cache: skip building a changectx in getfnode
 * rust: create wrapper struct to reduce `regex` contention issues

== Backwards Compatibility Changes ==

 * chg worker processes will now correctly load per-repository configuration
   when given a both a relative `--repository` path and an alternate working
   directory via `--cwd`. A side-effect of this change is that these workers
   will now return an error if hg cannot find the current working directory,
   even when a different directory is specified via `--cwd`.
 * phase: rename the requirement for internal-phase from `internal-phase` to `use-internal-phase` (see 74fb1842f8b962cf03d7cd5b841dbcf2ae065587)

== Internal API Changes ==

== Miscellaneous ==

 * sslutil: use proper attribute to select python 3.7+
 * typing: suppress a few pyi-errors with more recent pytype
 * ci: bump pytype to 2022.03.29
 * bundlespec: add documentation about existing option
 * subrepo: avoid opening console window for non-native subrepos on Windows
 * setup: unconditionally enable the `long-paths-support` option on Windows
 * setup: use the full executable manifest from `python.exe`
 * tests: work around libmagic bug in svn subrepo tests
 * packagelib: use python3 by default
 * Improve `hg bisect` performance
 * perf: properly process formatter option in perf::unbundle
 * compare-disco: miscellaneous display improvements
 * fsmonitor: better compatibility with newer Pythons
 * revlog: finer computation of "issnapshot"
 * rhg: don't fallback if `strip` or `rebase` are activated
 * perf: make perf::bundle compatible before 61ba04693d65
 * perf: make perf::bundle compatible down to 5.2
 * perf-unbundle: improve compatibility
 * run-tests: display the time it took to install Mercurial
 * mergetools: don't let meld open all changed files on startup
 * dirstate-v2: skip evaluation of hgignore regex on cached directories