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revset: fix resolving strings from a list

When using multiple revsets that get optimized into a list (like
hg log -r r1235 -r r1237 in hgsubversion), the revset list code was assuming the
strings were resolvable via repo[X]. hgsubversion and other extensions override
def stringset() to allow processing different revision identifiers (such as
r1235 or g<githash>), and there for the _list() implementation was circumventing
that resolution.

The fix is to just call stringset(). The default implementaiton does the same
thing that _list was already doing (namely repo[X]).

This has always been broken, but it was recently exposed by 4ee4f7415095 which
made "--rev X --rev Y" produce a combined revset "X | Y".

Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

You may also specify the full path to an extension::

  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !