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streamclone: move applystreamclone() from localrepo.py

Upcoming patches will modernize the streaming clone code. Streaming
clone data and code kind of lives in its own world. exchange.py is
arguably the most appropriate existing location for it. However, over
a dozen patches from now it became apparent that there was a lot of code
related to streaming clones and that having it contained within its own
module would make it easier to comprehend. So, we establish
streamclone.py.

It's worth noting that streamclone.py existed a long time ago, last seen
in the 1.6 release. It was removed in 04f76a954842.

The function was renamed as part of the move because its old name was
redundant with the new module name. The only other content change was
"self" was renamed to "repo" and minor grammar in the docstring was
updated.

Mercurial for Plan 9 from Bell Labs
===================================

This directory contains support for Mercurial on Plan 9 from Bell Labs
platforms. It is assumed that the version of Python running on these
systems supports the ANSI/POSIX Environment (APE). At the time of this
writing, the bichued/python port is the most commonly installed version
of Python on these platforms. If a native port of Python is ever made,
some minor modification will need to be made to support some of the more
esoteric requirements of the platform rather than those currently made
(cf. posix.py).

By default, installations will have the factotum extension enabled; this
extension permits factotum(4) to act as an authentication agent for
HTTP repositories. Additionally, an extdiff command named 9diff is
enabled which generates diff(1) compatible output suitable for use with
the plumber(4).

Commit messages are plumbed using E if no editor is defined; users must
update the plumbed file to continue, otherwise the hg process must be
interrupted.

Some work remains with regard to documentation. Section 5 manual page
references for hgignore and hgrc need to be re-numbered to section 6 (file
formats) and a new man page writer should be written to support the
Plan 9 man macro set. Until these issues can be resolved, manual pages
are elided from the installation.

Basic install:

  % mk install      # do a system-wide install
  % hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
  % hg              # see help

A proto(2) file is included in this directory as an example of how a
binary distribution could be packaged, ostensibly with contrib(1).

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.