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rust-node: binary Node ID and conversion utilities

The choice of type makes sure that a `Node` has the exact
wanted size. We'll use a different type for prefixes.

Added dependency: hexadecimal conversion relies on the
`hex` crate.

The fact that sooner or later Mercurial is going to need
to change its hash sizes has been taken strongly in
consideration:

- the hash length is a constant, but that is not directly
  exposed to callers. Changing the value of that constant
  is the only thing to do to change the hash length (even
  in unit tests)
- the code could be adapted to support several sizes of hashes,
  if that turned out to be useful. To that effect, only the
  size of a given `Node` is exposed in the public API.
- callers not involved in initial computation, I/O and FFI
  are able to operate without a priori assumptions on the hash
  size. The traits `FromHex` and `ToHex` have not been directly
  implemented, so that the doc-comments explaining these
  restrictions would stay really visible in `cargo doc`

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7788

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

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