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rhg: Add support for automatic fallback to Python

`rhg` is a command-line application that can do a small subset of what
`hg` can. It is written entirely in Rust, which avoids the cost of starting
a Python interpreter and importing many Python modules.
In a script that runs many `hg` commands, this cost can add up.

However making users decide when to use `rhg` instead of `hg` is
not practical as we want the subset of supported functionality
to grow over time.

Instead we introduce "fallback" behavior where, when `rhg` encounters
something (a sub-command, a repository format, …) that is not implemented
in Rust-only, it does nothing but silently start a subprocess of
Python-based `hg` running the same command.
That way `rhg` becomes a drop-in replacement for `hg` that sometimes
goes faster. Whether Python is used should be an implementation detail
not apparent to users (other than through speed).

A new `fallback` value is added to the previously introduced
`rhg.on-unsupported` configuration key. When in this mode, the new
`rhg.fallback-executable` config is determine what command to use
to run a Python-based `hg`.

The previous `rhg.on-unsupported = abort-silent` configuration was designed
to let a wrapper script call `rhg` and then fall back to `hg` based on the
exit code. This is still available, but having fallback behavior built-in
in rhg might be easier for users instead of leaving that script "as an
exercise for the reader".

Using a subprocess like this is not idea, especially when `rhg` is to be
installed in `$PATH` as `hg`, since the other `hg.py` executable needs
to still be available… somewhere. Eventually this could be replaced
by using PyOxidizer to a have a single executable that embeds a Python
interpreter, but only starts it when needed.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10093

  $ hg init t
  $ cd t
  $ echo This is file a1 > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m "commit #0"
  $ echo This is file b1 > b
  $ hg add b
  $ hg commit -m "commit #1"
  $ rm b
  $ hg update 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo This is file b2 > b
  $ hg add b
  $ hg commit -m "commit #2"
  created new head
  $ cd ..; rm -r t

  $ mkdir t
  $ cd t
  $ hg init
  $ echo This is file a1 > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m "commit #0"
  $ echo This is file b1 > b
  $ hg add b
  $ hg commit -m "commit #1"
  $ rm b
  $ hg update 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo This is file b2 > b
  $ hg commit -A -m "commit #2"
  adding b
  created new head
  $ cd ..; rm -r t

  $ hg init t
  $ cd t
  $ echo This is file a1 > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m "commit #0"
  $ echo This is file b1 > b
  $ hg add b
  $ hg commit -m "commit #1"
  $ rm b
  $ hg remove b
  $ hg update 0
  0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ echo This is file b2 > b
  $ hg commit -A -m "commit #2"
  adding b
  created new head

  $ hg merge 'wdir()'
  abort: merging with the working copy has no effect
  [10]

  $ cd ..