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manifest: proxy to revlog instance instead of inheriting

Previously, manifestrevlog inherited revlog.revlog and therefore
exposed all its APIs. This inevitably resulted in consumers calling
low-level revlog APIs.

As part of abstracting storage, we want to formalize the interface
for manifest storage. The revlog API is much too large to define as
the interface.

Like we did for filelog, this commit divorces the manifest class
from revlog so that we can standardize on a smaller API surface.

The way I went about this commit was I broke the inheritance, ran
tests, and added proxies until all tests passed. Like filelog, there
are a handful of attributes that don't belong on the interface.
And like filelog, we'll tease these out in the future.

As part of this, we formalize an interface for manifest storage and
add checks that manifestrevlog conforms to the interface.

Adding proxies will introduce some overhead due to extra attribute
lookups and function calls. On the mozilla-unified repository:

$ hg verify
before: real 627.220 secs (user 525.870+0.000 sys 18.800+0.000)
after:  real 628.930 secs (user 532.050+0.000 sys 18.320+0.000)

$ hg serve (for a clone)
before: user 223.580+0.000 sys 14.270+0.000
after:  user 227.720+0.000 sys 13.920+0.000

$ hg clone
before: user 506.390+0.000 sys 29.720+0.000
after:  user 513.080+0.000 sys 28.280+0.000

There appears to be some overhead here. But it appears to be 1-2%.
I think that is an appropriate price to pay for storage abstraction,
which will eventually let us have much nicer things. If the overhead
is noticed in other operations (whose CPU time isn't likely dwarfed by
fulltext resolution) or if we want to cut down on the overhead, we
could dynamically build up a type whose methods are effectively
aliased to a revlog instance's. I'm inclined to punt on that problem
for now. We may have to do it for the changelog. At which point it
could be implemented in a generic way and ported to filelog and
manifestrevlog easily enough I would think.

.. api:: manifest.manifestrevlog no longer inherits from revlog

   The manifestrevlog class now wraps a revlog instance instead of
   inheriting from revlog. Various attributes and methods on instances
   are no longer available.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4386

Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set of
files.

Like other file patterns, this pattern type is indicated by a prefix,
'set:'. The language supports a number of predicates which are joined
by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for grouping.

Identifiers such as filenames or patterns must be quoted with single
or double quotes if they contain characters outside of
``[.*{}[]?/\_a-zA-Z0-9\x80-\xff]`` or if they match one of the
predefined predicates. This generally applies to file patterns other
than globs and arguments for predicates. Pattern prefixes such as
``path:`` may be specified without quoting.

Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by escaping them,
e.g., ``\n`` is interpreted as a newline. To prevent them from being
interpreted, strings can be prefixed with ``r``, e.g. ``r'...'``.

See also :hg:`help patterns`.

Operators
=========

There is a single prefix operator:

``not x``
  Files not in x. Short form is ``! x``.

These are the supported infix operators:

``x and y``
  The intersection of files in x and y. Short form is ``x & y``.

``x or y``
  The union of files in x and y. There are two alternative short
  forms: ``x | y`` and ``x + y``.

``x - y``
  Files in x but not in y.

Predicates
==========

The following predicates are supported:

.. predicatesmarker

Examples
========

Some sample queries:

- Show status of files that appear to be binary in the working directory::

    hg status -A "set:binary()"

- Forget files that are in .hgignore but are already tracked::

    hg forget "set:hgignore() and not ignored()"

- Find text files that contain a string::

    hg files "set:grep(magic) and not binary()"

- Find C files in a non-standard encoding::

    hg files "set:**.c and not encoding('UTF-8')"

- Revert copies of large binary files::

    hg revert "set:copied() and binary() and size('>1M')"

- Revert files that were added to the working directory::

    hg revert "set:revs('wdir()', added())"

- Remove files listed in foo.lst that contain the letter a or b::

    hg remove "set: listfile:foo.lst and (**a* or **b*)"