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backout: provide linear backout as a default (without --merge option)

This changes backouts changeset to retain linear history, .e. it is committed
as a child of the working directory parent, not the reverted changeset
parent.

The default behavior was previously to just commit a reverted change as a
child of the backed out changeset - thus creating a new head. Most of
the time, you would use the --merge option, as it does not make sense to
keep this dangling head as is.
The previous behavior could be obtained by using 'hg update --clean .' after a
'hg backout --merge'.

The --merge option itself is not affected by this change. There is also
still an autocommit of the backout if a merge is not needed, i.e. in case
the backout is the parent of the working directory.

Previously we had (pwd = parent of the working directory):
                  pwd     older
backout           auto    merge
backout --merge   auto    commit

With the new linear approach:
                  pwd     older
backout           auto    commit
backout --merge   auto    commit

auto: commit done by the backout command
merge: backout also already committed but explicit merge and commit needed
commit: user need to commit the update/merge

os = <unloaded module 'os'>
os.system = <built-in function system>
os = <module 'os' from '?'>
util = <unloaded module 'util'>
util.system = <function system at 0x?>
util = <module 'mercurial.util' from '?'>
util.system = <function system at 0x?>
fred = <unloaded module 're'>
re = <unloaded module 'sys'>
fred = <unloaded module 're'>
fred.sub = <function sub at 0x?>
fred = <proxied module 're'>
re = <unloaded module 'sys'>
re.stderr = <open file '<stderr>', mode 'w' at 0x?>
re = <proxied module 'sys'>