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perf: use storage API for resolving manifest node

lookup() isn't part of the storage API. And this code shouldn't
be accessing manifestlog._revlog directly for the modern code base.
So let's port it to the modern API.

Note that the previous code was busted for cases where we needed
to call lookup() because lookup() isn't exposed by manifestrevlog
any more.

This change is strictly BC breaking because we no longer support
resolving partial nodes. But it is a perf* command and I don't
think we should flag the change as such.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4390

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