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patch: add config knob for displaying the index header

This config knob can take an integer between 0 and 40 or a
keyword ('none', 'short', 'full') to control the length of hash to
output. It will display diffs with the git index header as such,

  diff --git a/mercurial/mdiff.py b/mercurial/mdiff.py
  index 112edf7..d6b52c5 100644

We'll put this in the experimental section for now.

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