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strip: don't use "full" and "partial" to describe bundles

The partial bundle is not a subset of the full bundle, and the full
bundle is not full in any way that i see. The most obvious
interpretation of "full" I can think of is that it has all commits
back to the null revision, but that is not what the "full" bundle
is. The "full" bundle is simply a backup of what the user asked us to
strip (unless --no-backup). The "partial" bundle contains the
revisions we temporarily stripped because they had higher revision
numbers that some commit that the user asked us to strip.

The "full" bundle is already called "backup" in the code, so let's use
that in user-facing messages too. Let's call the "partial" bundle
"temporary" in the code.

When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified
individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range,
separated by the ":" character.

The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are
revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not
specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified,
it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions".

If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order.

A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5
gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9, 8, 7, and 6.