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remotefilelog: import pruned-down remotefilelog extension from hg-experimental

This is remotefilelog as of my recent patches for compatibility with
current tip of hg, minus support for old versions of Mercurial and
some FB-specific features like their treemanifest extension and
fetching linkrev data from a patched phabricator. The file extutil.py
moved from hgext3rd to remotefilelog.

This is not yet ready to be landed, consider it a preview for
now. Planned changes include:

 * replace lz4 with zstd
 * rename some capabilities, requirements and wireproto commands to mark
   them as experimental
 * consolidate bits of shallowutil with related functions (eg readfile)

I'm certainly open to other (small) changes, but my rough mission is
to land this largely as-is so we can use it as a model of the
functionality we need going forward for lazy-fetching of file contents
from a server.

# no-check-commit because of a few foo_bar functions

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4782

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.