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help: add topic about evolution, based on text from evolve extension

I've taken the text produced by `hg help evolution` when the evolve
extension is enabled and made that available by the same command with
just hg core. Changes I've made:

 * Added "(EXPERIMENTAL)" to the title. (That doesn't hide the topic
   from `hg help`, though.)

 * Replaced old-style `experimental.evolution=<names>` config by
   new-style `experimental.evolution.<name>=true`.

 * Replaces a "obsolete markers" by "obsolescence markers".

 * Removed most content from "Current feature status".

When the evolve extension is enabled, its help text takes precedence.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10516

== New Features ==

 * `hg mv -A` can now be used with `--at-rev`. It behaves just like
   `hg cp -A --at-rev`, i.e. it marks the destination as a copy of the
   source whether or not the source still exists (but the source must
   exist in the parent revision).

 * New revset predicate `diffcontains(pattern)` for filtering revisions
   in the same way as `hg grep --diff pattern`.

 * The memory footprint per changeset and per file during pull/unbundle
   operations has been significantly reduced.


== New Experimental Features ==



== Bug Fixes ==



== Backwards Compatibility Changes ==



== Internal API Changes ==

 * `merge.update()` is now private (renamed to `_update()`). Hopefully
   the higher-level functions available in the same module cover your
   use cases.

 * `phases.registernew` now takes a set of revisions instead of a list
   of nodes. `phases.advanceboundary` takes an optional set of revisions
   in addition to the list of nodes. The corresponeding members of the
   `phasecache` class follow this change.

 * The `addgroup` member of `revlog` classes no longer keeps a list of
   all found nodes. It now returns True iff a node was found in the group.
   An optional callback for duplicated nodes can be used by callers to keep
   track of all nodes themselve.

 * The `_chaininfocache` of `revlog` classes has been changed from a dict
   to a LRU cache.