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convert: add config option to copy extra keys from Git commits

Git commit objects support storing arbitrary key-value metadata. While
there is no user-facing mechanism in Git to record these values, some
tools do record data here.

Currently, `hg convert` only handles the "author," "committer," and
"parent" keys in Git commit objects. All other keys are ignored. This
means that any custom keys are lost when converting Git repos to
Mercurial.

This patch implements support for copying a whitelist of extra keys
from Git commit objects to the "extras" dict of the destination. As
the added tests demonstate, this allows extra metadata to be preserved
during the conversion process.

This patch stops short of converting all metadata to "extras." We could
potentially implement this via `convert.git.extrakeys=*` or similar.
But copying everything by default is a bit dangerous because if Git
adds new keys to commit objects, we could find ourselves copying
things that shouldn't be copied!

This patch also assumes the source key is the same as the destination
key. We could implement support for prefixing the output key to
distinguish it as coming from Git. But until this feature is needed,
I'm inclined to hold off implementing it.

https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/1306

Initialize remote repo with branches:

  $ hg init remote
  $ cd remote

  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Ama
  adding a

  $ hg branch br
  marked working directory as branch br
  (branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
  $ hg ci -Amb

  $ echo c > c
  $ hg ci -Amc
  adding c

  $ hg log
  changeset:   2:ae3d9c30ec50
  branch:      br
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     c
  
  changeset:   1:3f7f930ca414
  branch:      br
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     b
  
  changeset:   0:cb9a9f314b8b
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  

  $ cd ..

Try cloning -r branch:

  $ hg clone -rbr remote local1
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
  updating to branch br
  2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg -R local1 parents
  changeset:   2:ae3d9c30ec50
  branch:      br
  tag:         tip
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     c
  

Try cloning -rother clone#branch:

  $ hg clone -r0 remote#br local2
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
  updating to branch default
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg -R local2 parents
  changeset:   0:cb9a9f314b8b
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  

Try cloning -r1 clone#branch:

  $ hg clone -r1 remote#br local3
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 3 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
  updating to branch br
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved

  $ hg -R local3 parents
  changeset:   1:3f7f930ca414
  branch:      br
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     b