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revset: improve head revset performance

Previously the head() revset would iterate over every item in the subset and
check if it was a head.  Since the subset is often the entire repo, this was
slow on large repos. Now we iterate over each item in the head list and check if
it's in the subset, which results in much less work.

hg log -r 'head()' on a large repo:
Before: 0.95s
After: 0.28s

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.