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upgrade: implement partial upgrade for upgrading persistent-nodemap

Upgrading repositories to use persistent nodemap should be fast and easy as it
requires only two things:

1) Updating the requirements
2) Writing a persistent-nodemap on disk

For both of the steps above, we don't need to edit existing revlogs.

This patch makes upgrade only do the above mentioned two steps if we are
only upgarding to use persistent-nodemap feature.

Since `nodemap.persist_nodemap()` assumes that there exists a nodemap file for
the given revlog if we are trying to call it, this patch adds `force` argument
to create a file if does not exist which is true in our upgrade case.

The test changes demonstrate that we no longer write nodemap files for manifest
after upgrade which I think is desirable.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9936

The censor system allows retroactively removing content from
files. Actually censoring a node requires using the censor extension,
but the functionality for handling censored nodes is partially in core.

Censored nodes in a filelog have the flag ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` set,
and the contents of the censored node are replaced with a censor
tombstone. For historical reasons, the tombstone is packed in the
filelog metadata field ``censored``. This allows censored nodes to be
(mostly) safely transmitted through old formats like changegroup
versions 1 and 2. When using changegroup formats older than 3, the
receiver is required to re-add the ``REVIDX_ISCENSORED`` flag when
storing the revision. This depends on the ``censored`` metadata key
never being used for anything other than censoring revisions, which is
true as of January 2017. Note that the revlog flag is the
authoritative marker of a censored node: the tombstone should only be
consulted when looking for a reason a node was censored or when revlog
flags are unavailable as mentioned above.

The tombstone data is a free-form string. It's expected that users of
censor will want to record the reason for censoring a node in the
tombstone. Censored nodes must be able to fit in the size of the
content being censored.