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shelve: no longer strip internal commit when using internal phase

When the internal phase is used, the internal commits we create during shelve
will be automatically hidden, and we don't need to strip them. Avoiding strips
gives much better performances and is less traumatic for caches.

Test changes are all related to revision numbers increasing more quickly since
we avoid stripping.

At the end of `test-shelve.t` we now need manually strip the shelve-commit in
addition to the x.shelve file deletion. This emulates a preexisting shelve
after a repository upgrade.

Note:

    The hidden internal commits confuses rebase a bit as shown by a new test
    added. This will happen when the user have shelve commits on top of a
    changeset to be rebased.

    We'll fix this in the next commit. As we still use a backup bundle, rebase
    can just strip the internal changesets and be fine.

WiX installer source files
==========================

The files in this folder are used by the thg-winbuild [1] package
building architecture to create a Mercurial MSI installer.   These files
are versioned within the Mercurial source tree because the WXS files
must kept up to date with distribution changes within their branch.  In
other words, the default branch WXS files are expected to diverge from
the stable branch WXS files.  Storing them within the same repository is
the only sane way to keep the source tree and the installer in sync.

The MSI installer builder uses only the mercurial.ini file from the
contrib/win32 folder, the contents of which have been historically used
to create an InnoSetup based installer.  The rest of the files there are
ignored.

The MSI packages built by thg-winbuild require elevated (admin)
privileges to be installed due to the installation of MSVC CRT libraries
under the C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS folder.  Thus the InnoSetup installers may
still be useful to some users.

To build your own MSI packages, clone the thg-winbuild [1] repository
and follow the README.txt [2] instructions closely.  There are fewer
prerequisites for a WiX [3] installer than an InnoSetup installer, but
they are more specific.

Direct questions or comments to Steve Borho <[e-mail]>

[1] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild
[2] http://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg-winbuild/src/tip/README.txt
[3] http://wix.sourceforge.net/