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context: move logic from changectx.__init__ to localrepo.__getitem__ (API)

My motivation for this change was to make repo[node] not load the
dirstate (more about that in the next patch), but I think it makes
more sense this way too. For example, raising RepoLookupError seems to
belong better in the repo lookup function
(i.e. localrepo.__getitem__).

This makes the changectx constructor very simple -- it just assigns
the given repo, revnum, and nodeid to properties.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4827

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