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repair: preserve phase also when not using generaldelta (issue5678)

It seems like we used to pick the oldest possible version of the
changegroup to use for bundles created by the repair module (used
e.g. by "hg strip" and for temporary bundles by "hg rebase"). I tried
to preserve that behavior when I created the changegroup.safeversion()
method in 3b2ac2115464 (changegroup: introduce safeversion(),
2016-01-19).

However, we have recently chagned our minds and decided that these
commands are only used locally and downgrades are unlikely. That
decicion allowed us to start adding obsmarker and phase information to
these bundles. However, as the bug report shows, it means we get
different behavior e.g. when generaldelta is not enabled (because when
it was enabled, it forced us to use bundle2). The commit that actually
caused the reported bug was 8e3021fd1a44 (strip: include phases in
bundle (BC), 2017-06-15).

So, since we now depend on having more information in the bundles,
let's make sure we instead pick the newest possible changegroup
version.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D715

Valid URLs are of the form::

  local/filesystem/path[#revision]
  file://local/filesystem/path[#revision]
  http://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
  https://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
  ssh://[user@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]

Paths in the local filesystem can either point to Mercurial
repositories or to bundle files (as created by :hg:`bundle` or
:hg:`incoming --bundle`). See also :hg:`help paths`.

An optional identifier after # indicates a particular branch, tag, or
changeset to use from the remote repository. See also :hg:`help
revisions`.

Some features, such as pushing to http:// and https:// URLs are only
possible if the feature is explicitly enabled on the remote Mercurial
server.

Note that the security of HTTPS URLs depends on proper configuration of
web.cacerts.

Some notes about using SSH with Mercurial:

- SSH requires an accessible shell account on the destination machine
  and a copy of hg in the remote path or specified with as remotecmd.
- path is relative to the remote user's home directory by default. Use
  an extra slash at the start of a path to specify an absolute path::

    ssh://example.com//tmp/repository

- Mercurial doesn't use its own compression via SSH; the right thing
  to do is to configure it in your ~/.ssh/config, e.g.::

    Host *.mylocalnetwork.example.com
      Compression no
    Host *
      Compression yes

  Alternatively specify "ssh -C" as your ssh command in your
  configuration file or with the --ssh command line option.

These URLs can all be stored in your configuration file with path
aliases under the [paths] section like so::

  [paths]
  alias1 = URL1
  alias2 = URL2
  ...

You can then use the alias for any command that uses a URL (for
example :hg:`pull alias1` will be treated as :hg:`pull URL1`).

Two path aliases are special because they are used as defaults when
you do not provide the URL to a command:

default:
  When you create a repository with hg clone, the clone command saves
  the location of the source repository as the new repository's
  'default' path. This is then used when you omit path from push- and
  pull-like commands (including incoming and outgoing).

default-push:
  The push command will look for a path named 'default-push', and
  prefer it over 'default' if both are defined.