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exchange: refactor APIs to obtain bundle data (API)

Currently, exchange.getbundle() returns either a cg1unpacker or a
util.chunkbuffer (in the case of bundle2). This is kinda OK, as
both expose a .read() to consumers. However, localpeer.getbundle()
has code inferring what the response type is based on arguments and
converts the util.chunkbuffer returned in the bundle2 case to a
bundle2.unbundle20 instance. This is a sign that the API for
exchange.getbundle() is not ideal because it doesn't consistently
return an "unbundler" instance.

In addition, unbundlers mask the fact that there is an underlying
generator of changegroup data. In both cg1 and bundle2, this generator
is being fed into a util.chunkbuffer so it can be re-exposed as a
file object.

util.chunkbuffer is a nice abstraction. However, it should only be
used "at the edges." This is because keeping data as a generator is
more efficient than converting it to a chunkbuffer, especially if we
convert that chunkbuffer back to a generator (as is the case in some
code paths currently).

This patch refactors exchange.getbundle() into
exchange.getbundlechunks(). The new API returns an iterator of chunks
instead of a file-like object.

Callers of exchange.getbundle() have been updated to use the new API.

There is a minor change of behavior in test-getbundle.t. This is
because `hg debuggetbundle` isn't defining bundlecaps. As a result,
a cg1 data stream and unpacker is being produced. This is getting fed
into a new bundle20 instance via bundle2.writebundle(), which uses
a backchannel mechanism between changegroup generation to add the
"nbchanges" part parameter. I never liked this backchannel mechanism
and I plan to remove it someday. `hg bundle` still produces the
"nbchanges" part parameter, so there should be no user-visible
change of behavior. I consider this "regression" a bug in
`hg debuggetbundle`. And that bug is captured by an existing
"TODO" in the code to use bundle2 capabilities.

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>