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util.url: copy urllib.unquote() into util to improve startup times

The ui class uses util.hasscheme() in a couple of places, causing hg
to import urllib even when it doesn't need to. This copies
urllib.unquote() to avoid that import.

perfstartup time before the URL refactoring (8796fb6af67e):

! wall 0.050692 comb 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)

before this change:

! wall 0.064742 comb 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100)

after this change:

! wall 0.052126 comb 0.000000 user 0.000000 sys 0.000000 (best of 100

When Mercurial accepts more than one revision, they may be specified
individually, or provided as a topologically continuous range,
separated by the ":" character.

The syntax of range notation is [BEGIN]:[END], where BEGIN and END are
revision identifiers. Both BEGIN and END are optional. If BEGIN is not
specified, it defaults to revision number 0. If END is not specified,
it defaults to the tip. The range ":" thus means "all revisions".

If BEGIN is greater than END, revisions are treated in reverse order.

A range acts as a closed interval. This means that a range of 3:5
gives 3, 4 and 5. Similarly, a range of 9:6 gives 9, 8, 7, and 6.