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exchange: support declaring pull depth

Upcoming commits will teach exchangev2 how to perform a shallow
clone. This commit teaches hg.clone(), exchange.pull(), and
exchange.pulloperation to recognize a request for a shallow clone
by having the caller specify a numeric depth of the maximum number of
ancestor changesets to fetch.

There are certainly other ways we could control shallow-ness. But this
one is simple to implement and is also how the narrow extension
controls things. So it seems to make sense to start here.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5136

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