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phase: attach phase to the transaction instead of the lock

The phase cache file is no longer written on lock release, it is now handled by
the transaction (as changesets and obsolescence markers are).

(Hooray)

As we stop relying on the lock to write phase, repos with no existing phase
information will need to wait for a phase move or a strip to happen in order to
get the first write in the `phaseroots` file. This explain the change in
test-inherit-mode.t.

This should not have any side effects but in very obscure cases where
people interact with pre-2.1 and post-2.1 versions of Mercurial on the
same repo while having MQ patches applied but the MQ extension
disabled from time to time. A case unlikely enough to not be worth
preserving the old behavior with awful hacks.

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 http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.