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changelog: add class to represent parsed changelog revisions

Currently, changelog entries are parsed into their respective
components at read time. Many operations are only interested
in a subset of fields of a changelog entry. The parsing and
storing of all the fields adds avoidable overhead.

This patch introduces the "changelogrevision" class. It takes
changelog raw text and exposes the parsed results as attributes.
The code for parsing changelog entries has been moved into its
construction function. changelog.read() has been modified to use
the new class internally while maintaining its existing API.
Future patches will make revision parsing lazy.

We implement the construction function of the new class with
__new__ instead of __init__ so we can use a named tuple to
represent the empty revision. This saves overhead and complexity
of coercing later versions of this class to represent an empty
instance.

While we are here, we add a method on changelog to obtain an
instance of the new type.

The overhead of constructing the new class regresses performance
of revsets accessing this data:

author(mpm)
0.896565
0.929984

desc(bug)
0.887169
0.935642 105%

date(2015)
0.878797
0.908094

extra(rebase_source)
0.865446
0.922624 106%

author(mpm) or author(greg)
1.801832
1.902112 105%

author(mpm) or desc(bug)
1.812438
1.860977

date(2015) or branch(default)
0.968276
1.005824

author(mpm) or desc(bug) or date(2015) or extra(rebase_source)
3.656193
3.743381

Once lazy parsing is implemented, these revsets will all be faster
than before. There is no performance change on revsets that do not
access this data. There /could/ be a performance regression on
operations that perform several changelog reads. However, I can't
think of anything outside of revsets and `hg log` (basically the
same as a revset) that would be impacted.

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>