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revlog: use proper version comparison during verify

Verify appears to want to compare the changelog's revlog version
number with the version number of filelogs and error if they are
different. But what it was actually doing was comparing the full
32-bit header integer, which contains 2 shorts: 1 for the revlog
version number and 1 for feature flags.

This commit tweaks the verification code so it only looks at the
version number component of the header and emits a warning if they
differ.

The new code is more robust because it accounts for future revlog
version numbers without them needing to be special cased.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4704

Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

You may also specify the full path to an extension::

  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !