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phase: add an archived phase

This phase allows for hidden changesets in the "user space". It differs from
the "internal" phase which is intended for internal by-product only. There
have been discussions at the 4.8 sprint to use such phase to speedup cleanup
after history rewriting operation.

Shipping it in the same release as the 'internal-phase' groups the associated
`requires` entry. The important bit is to have support for this phase in the
earliest version of mercurial possible. Adding the UI to manipulate this new
phase later seems fine.

The current plan for archived usage and user interface are as follow. On a
repository with internal-phase on and evolution off:

* history rewriting command set rewritten changeset in the archived phase.
  (This mean updating the cleanupnodes method).
* keep `hg unbundle .hg/strip-backup/X.hg` as a way to restore changeset for
  now
  (backup bundle need to contains phase data)
* [maybe] add a `hg strip --soft` advance flag
  (a light way to expose the feature without getting in the way of a better
  UI)

Mercurial 4.8 freeze is too close to get the above in by then.

We don't introduce a new repository `requirement` as we reuse the one
introduced with the 'archived' phase during the 4.8 cycle.

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ touch empty1
  $ hg add empty1
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty1'

  $ touch empty2
  $ hg add empty2
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty2'

  $ hg up -C 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ touch empty3
  $ hg add empty3
  $ hg commit -m 'add empty3'
  created new head

  $ hg heads
  changeset:   2:a1cb177e0d44
  tag:         tip
  parent:      0:1e1d9c4e5b64
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     add empty3
  
  changeset:   1:097d2b0e17f6
  user:        test
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     add empty2
  

  $ hg merge 1
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  (branch merge, don't forget to commit)

Before changeset 05257fd28591, we didn't notice the
empty file that came from rev 1:

  $ hg status
  M empty2
  $ hg commit -m merge
  $ hg manifest --debug tip
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty1
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty2
  b80de5d138758541c5f05265ad144ab9fa86d1db 644   empty3

  $ cd ..