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revlog: add a "data compression mode" entry in the index tuple

That will make it possible to keep track of compression information in the
revlog index, opening the way to more efficient revision restoration (in native
code, but the python usage is already defeating performance work).

We start with adding a new entry to the index tuple, using a value matching the
current behavior. We will introduce storage and other value in later changesets.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10646

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.