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push: restrict common discovery to the pushed set

This changeset make use of the ability of the set discovery to only search
common changeset for a subset of the repository. Restricting that search to the
pushed set avoid potential waste of time finding out the status of many
unrelated related revision.

Repository with many heads were especially badly affected by this. Here is an
example of findcommonhead discovery for pushing 11 outgoing changeset on a
repository with tens of thousand of unrelated heads. (discovery run over a ssh
link to localhost).

Before:
    queries: 92
    time:    44.1996s

After:
    queries: 3
    time:    0.6938s

A x63 speedup even with a network link without latency.

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 = !