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dispatch: add HGPLAIN=+strictflags to restrict early parsing of global options

If this feature is enabled, early options are parsed using the global options
table. As the parser stops processing options when non/unknown option is
encountered, it won't mistakenly take an option value as a new early option.
Still "--" can be injected to terminate the parsing (e.g. "hg -R -- log"), I
think it's unlikely to lead to an RCE.

To minimize a risk of this change, new fancyopts.earlygetopt() path is enabled
only when +strictflags is set. Also the strict parser doesn't support '--repo',
a short for '--repository' yet. This limitation will be removed later.

As this feature is backward incompatible, I decided to add a new opt-in
mechanism to HGPLAIN. I'm not pretty sure if this is the right choice, but
I'm thinking of adding +feature/-feature syntax to HGPLAIN. Alternatively,
we could add a new environment variable. Any bikeshedding is welcome.

Note that HGPLAIN=+strictflags doesn't work correctly in chg session since
command arguments are pre-processed in C. This wouldn't be easily fixed.

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