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auto-upgrade: introduce a way to auto-upgrade to/from share-safe

This is the first "automatic-upgrade" capability. In the following commits,
similar features are coming for other "fast to upgrade" formats.

This is different from the `safe-mismatch.source-not-safe` and
`safe-mismatch.source-safe` configuration that deal with mismatch between a
share and its share-source. Here we are dealing with mismatch between a
repository configuration and its actual format.

We will need further work for cases were the repository cannot be locked. A
basic protection is in place to avoid  a infinite loop for now, but it will get
proper attention in a later changeset.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12611

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.