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remove: rewrite to be ~400x faster, bit more friendly

old remove code called localrepo.changes for each file.
was very expensive:

  $ hg --time rm arch>/dev/null
  Time: real 1066.120 secs (user 1014.450+0.000 sys 18.090+0.000)

new code, same files:

  $ hg --time rm arch>/dev/null
  Time: real 2.770 secs (user 2.190+0.000 sys 0.580+0.000)

also mention "-f" if not removing files. also allow "-f" to forget
added files.

make test a bit better.

Mercurial's documentation is currently kept in ASCIIDOC format, which
is a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit. It's also
convertible to a variety of other formats including standard UNIX man
page format and HTML.

To do this, you'll need to install ASCIIDOC:

 http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/

To generate the man page:

 asciidoc -d manpage -b docbook hg.1.txt
 xmlto man hg.1.xml

To display:

 groff -mandoc -Tascii hg.1 | more

To create the html page (without stylesheets):

 asciidoc -b html hg.1.txt