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merge: change modified indicator to be 20 bytes

Previously we indicated that the .hgsubstate file was dirty by adding a '+' to
the end of its hash in the wctx manifest. This made is complicated to have new
manifest implementations that rely on the node length being fixed.

In previous patches we added added and modified node placeholders, so let's use
those to indicate dirty here as well. It doesn't look like anything ever
depended on this '+' (aside from it being different to the parent), so nothing
else needed to change here.

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.
 * CHGTIMEOUT specifies how many seconds chg will wait before giving up
   connecting to a cmdserver. If it is 0, chg will wait forever. Default: 60