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convert: introduce hg.revs to replace hg.startrev and --rev with a revset

The existing knobs for controlling which revisions to convert were often
insufficient. Revsets is a shiny hammer that provides a better solution.

Revsets has been introduced in --rev handling in a lot of other places while
being more or less backwards compatible. Doing the same here would be a much
more elegant ... but that would unfortunately not work in this case.  "--rev 7"
used to mean revision 0 to 7 - it would be an unacceptable change if it
suddenly just meant revision 7.

Instead we introduce a new configuration setting. It will only work for
Mercurial repositories so adding a new commandline option for it would not be a
nice solution.

There is no way to use the fancy deprecation markup for configuration settings
so we just remove the documentation of hg.startrev.

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing:

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.