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repository: define manifest interfaces

The long march towards declaring interfaces for repository
primitives continues.

This commit essentially defines interfaces based on the following
types:

* manifest.manifestdict -> imanifestdict
* manifest.manifestlog -> imanifestlog
* manifest.memmanifestctx -> imanifestrevisionwritable
* manifest.manifestctx -> imanifestrevisionstored
* manifest.memtreemanifestctx -> imanifestrevisionwritable
* manifest.treemanifestctx -> imanifestrevisionstored
* util.dirs -> idirs

The interfaces are thoroughly documented. Their documentation is
now better than the documentation in manifest.py in many cases.

With the exception of util.dirs, classes have been annotated with
their interfaces. (I didn't feel like util.dirs needed the
proper interface treatment.)

Tests have been added demonstrating that all classes and instances
conform to their interfaces.

This work was much easier than filelogs. That's because Durham
did an excellent job formalizing the manifest API a while back.

There are still some minor kludges with the interfaces that should
probably be addressed. But the primary goal with interface
declarations is getting something established. Once we have an
interface, we can modify it later easily enough.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3869

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>