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revlog: make the index always return the same tuple

It is simpler to manage the diferrence in on disk format in the internal index
code itself and lets the rest of the code always handle the same object.

This will become even more important when the data we store will be entirely
different (for example the changelog does not need the "linkrev" field.

We start with item reading, we will deal with item writing in the next
changesets.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10568

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.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.