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manifest: remove last uses of repo.manifest

Now that all the functionality has been moved to manifestlog/manifestrevlog/etc,
we can finally change all the uses of repo.manifest to use the new versions. A
future diff will then delete repo.manifest.

One additional change in this commit is to change repo.manifestlog to be a
@storecache property instead of @property. This is required by some uses of
repo.manifest require that it be settable (contrib/perf.py and the static http
server). We can't do this in a prior change because we can't use @storecache on
this until repo.manifest is no longer used anywhere.

When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified
individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range,
separated by the ":" character.

The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are
revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not
specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified,
it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions".

If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order.

A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5
gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9, 8, 7, and 6.