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hgweb: move some config options to requestcontext

Various config options from the repository were stored on the
hgweb instance. While unlikely, there could be race conditions between
a new request updating these values and an in-flight request seeing both
old and new values, leading to weird results.

We move some of options/attributes from hgweb to requestcontext.

As part of this, we establish config* helpers on requestcontext. As
part of the move, we changed int() casts to configint() calls. The
int() usage likely predates the existence of configint().

We also removed config option updating from once every refresh to every
request. I don't believe obtaining config options is expensive enough to
warrant only doing when the repository has changed.

The excessive use of object.__setattr__ is unfortunate. But it will
eventually disappear once the proxy is no longer necessary.

Mercurial supports several ways to specify individual revisions.

A plain integer is treated as a revision number. Negative integers are
treated as sequential offsets from the tip, with -1 denoting the tip,
-2 denoting the revision prior to the tip, and so forth.

A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision
identifier.

A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a
unique revision identifier and is referred to as a short-form
identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid if it is the prefix
of exactly one full-length identifier.

Any other string is treated as a bookmark, tag, or branch name. A
bookmark is a movable pointer to a revision. A tag is a permanent name
associated with a revision. A branch name denotes the tipmost open branch head
of that branch - or if they are all closed, the tipmost closed head of the
branch. Bookmark, tag, and branch names must not contain the ":" character.

The reserved name "tip" always identifies the most recent revision.

The reserved name "null" indicates the null revision. This is the
revision of an empty repository, and the parent of revision 0.

The reserved name "." indicates the working directory parent. If no
working directory is checked out, it is equivalent to null. If an
uncommitted merge is in progress, "." is the revision of the first
parent.