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clone: only use stream when we understand the revlog format

This patch fixes issues with stream cloning in the presense of parentdelta,
lwcopy and similar additions that change the interpretation of the revlog
format, or the format itself.

Currently, the stream capability is sent like this:
stream=<version of changelog>

But the client doesn't actually check the version number; also, it only checks
the changelog and it doesn't capture the interpretation-changes and
flag-changes in parentdelta and lwcopy.

This patch removes the 'stream' capability whenever we use a non-basic revlog
format, to prevent old clients from receiving incorrect data. In those cases,
a new capability called 'streamreqs' is added instead. Instead of a revlog
version, it comes with a list of revlog-format relevant requirements, which
are a subset of the repository requirements, excluding things that are not
relevant for stream.

New clients use this to determine whether or not they can stream. Old clients
only look for the 'stream' capability, as always. New servers will still send
this when serving old repositories.

Mercurial reads configuration data from several files, if they exist.
Below we list the most specific file first.

On Windows, these configuration files are read:

- ``<repo>\.hg\hgrc``
- ``%USERPROFILE%\.hgrc``
- ``%USERPROFILE%\mercurial.ini``
- ``%HOME%\.hgrc``
- ``%HOME%\mercurial.ini``
- ``C:\mercurial\mercurial.ini`` (unless regkey or hgrc.d\ or mercurial.ini found)
- ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercurial`` (unless hgrc.d\ or mercurial.ini found)
- ``<hg.exe-dir>\hgrc.d\*.rc`` (unless mercurial.ini found)
- ``<hg.exe-dir>\mercurial.ini``

On Unix, these files are read:

- ``<repo>/.hg/hgrc``
- ``$HOME/.hgrc``
- ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc``
- ``/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc``
- ``<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc``
- ``<install-root>/etc/mercurial/hgrc.d/*.rc``

If there is a per-repository configuration file which is not owned by
the active user, Mercurial will warn you that the file is skipped::

  not trusting file <repo>/.hg/hgrc from untrusted user USER, group GROUP

If this bothers you, the warning can be silenced (the file would still
be ignored) or trust can be established. Use one of the following
settings, the syntax is explained below:

- ``ui.report_untrusted = False``
- ``trusted.users = USER``
- ``trusted.groups = GROUP``

The configuration files for Mercurial use a simple ini-file format. A
configuration file consists of sections, led by a ``[section]`` header
and followed by ``name = value`` entries::

  [ui]
  username = Firstname Lastname <[e-mail]>
  verbose = True

The above entries will be referred to as ``ui.username`` and
``ui.verbose``, respectively. Please see the hgrc man page for a full
description of the possible configuration values:

- on Unix-like systems: ``man hgrc``
- online: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html