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revlog: speed up prefix matching against nodes

The radix tree already contains all the information we need to
determine whether a short string is an unambiguous node identifier.
We now make use of this information.

In a kernel tree, this improves the performance of
"hg log -q -r24bf01de75" from 0.27 seconds to 0.06.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.