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copies: extract data extraction into a `revinfo` function

The function is build once at the beginning of the algorithm and used fetch
appropriate information for each revision.

This abstracts some implementation details from the main algorithm and will help
us to access the data more efficiently in future changesets.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D7070

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.