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bookmarks: prevent pushes of divergent bookmarks (foo@remote)

Before this change, such bookmarks are write-only: a client can push
them but not pull/read them. And because these bookmark can't be read,
even pushes are limited (for instance trying to delete such a bookmark
fails with a vanilla client because the client thinks the bookmark is
neither on the local nor the remote).

This change makes the server refuses such bookmarks, and for earlier
errors, makes the client refuse to send them.

I think the change of behavior is acceptable because I think this is a
bug in push/pull, and I don't think we change the behavior of `hg
unbundle`, because it doesn't seem that `hg bundle` ever store
bookmarks (and even if it did, it would seem weird anyway to try to
send divergent bookmarks).

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8117

Some Mercurial commands can produce a lot of output, and Mercurial will
attempt to use a pager to make those commands more pleasant.

To set the pager that should be used, set the application variable::

  [pager]
  pager = less -FRX

If no pager is set in the user or repository configuration, Mercurial uses the
environment variable $PAGER. If $PAGER is not set, pager.pager from the default
or system configuration is used. If none of these are set, a default pager will
be used, typically `less` on Unix and `more` on Windows.

.. container:: windows

  On Windows, `more` is not color aware, so using it effectively disables color.
  MSYS and Cygwin shells provide `less` as a pager, which can be configured to
  support ANSI color codes.  See :hg:`help config.color.pagermode` to configure
  the color mode when invoking a pager.

You can disable the pager for certain commands by adding them to the
pager.ignore list::

  [pager]
  ignore = version, help, update

To ignore global commands like :hg:`version` or :hg:`help`, you have
to specify them in your user configuration file.

To control whether the pager is used at all for an individual command,
you can use --pager=<value>:

  - use as needed: `auto`.
  - require the pager: `yes` or `on`.
  - suppress the pager: `no` or `off` (any unrecognized value
    will also work).

To globally turn off all attempts to use a pager, set::

  [ui]
  paginate = never

which will prevent the pager from running.