upgrade: register compression as a format variants
Compression is a promising vector for speedup, let us make it easier to check
the compression used and upgrade existing repository.
Set up
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
Try to import an empty patch
$ hg import --no-commit - <<EOF
> EOF
applying patch from stdin
abort: stdin: no diffs found
[255]
No dirstate backups are left behind
$ ls .hg/dirstate* | sort
.hg/dirstate