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exchangev2: fetch changeset revisions

All Mercurial repository data is derived from changesets:
you can't do anything unless you have changesets. Therefore,
it makes sense for changesets to be the first piece of data
that we transfer as part of pull.

To do this, we call our new "changesetdata" command, requesting
parents and revision data. This gives us all the data that a
changegroup delta group would give us. We simply normalize
this data into what addgroup() expects and call that API on
the changelog to bulk insert revisions into the changelog.

Code in this commit is heavily borrowed from
changegroup.cg1unpacker.apply().

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4482

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.
 * CHGTIMEOUT specifies how many seconds chg will wait before giving up
   connecting to a cmdserver. If it is 0, chg will wait forever. Default: 60