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chgserver: use global ui instead of repo ui for dispatch.request.ui

Before this patch, chgserver will use repo ui as dispatch.request.ui, while
req.ui is designed to be global ui without repo config.

Passing repo ui as dispatch.request.ui leads to repo.ui being incorrect, which
can lead to unwanted results. For example, if the repo config has [extensions],
it could affect which localrepository.featuresetupfuncs get executed and the
repo may have an incorrect list of supported requirements.

This patch changes _renewui to return both global ui and repo ui. The global
ui is passed to req.ui, and the repo ui is used to calculate confighash. It
will make chg pass test-largefiles-misc.t and test-requires.t, which are both
related to repo requirements.

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.