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largefiles: register wire protocol commands with modern APIs

The wireproto.wireprotocommand decorator is the preferred mechanism for
registering wire protocol commands. In addition, wireproto.commands
is no longer a 2-tuple and use of that 2-tuple API should be considered
deprecated.

This commit ports largefiles to use wireproto.wireprotocommand()
and ports to the "commandentry" API.

As part of this, the definition of the "lheads" wire protocol
command is moved to the proper stanza.

We stop short of actually using wireprotocommand as a decorator
in order to minimize churn. We should ideally move wire protocol
commands to the registrar mechanism. But that's for another
changeset.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2018

Some commands allow the user to specify a date, e.g.:

- backout, commit, import, tag: Specify the commit date.
- log, revert, update: Select revision(s) by date.

Many date formats are valid. Here are some examples:

- ``Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006`` (local timezone assumed)
- ``Dec 6 13:18 -0600`` (year assumed, time offset provided)
- ``Dec 6 13:18 UTC`` (UTC and GMT are aliases for +0000)
- ``Dec 6`` (midnight)
- ``13:18`` (today assumed)
- ``3:39`` (3:39AM assumed)
- ``3:39pm`` (15:39)
- ``2006-12-06 13:18:29`` (ISO 8601 format)
- ``2006-12-6 13:18``
- ``2006-12-6``
- ``12-6``
- ``12/6``
- ``12/6/6`` (Dec 6 2006)
- ``today`` (midnight)
- ``yesterday`` (midnight)
- ``now`` - right now

Lastly, there is Mercurial's internal format:

- ``1165411109 0`` (Wed Dec 6 13:18:29 2006 UTC)

This is the internal representation format for dates. The first number
is the number of seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 00:00 UTC). The
second is the offset of the local timezone, in seconds west of UTC
(negative if the timezone is east of UTC).

The log command also accepts date ranges:

- ``<DATE`` - at or before a given date/time
- ``>DATE`` - on or after a given date/time
- ``DATE to DATE`` - a date range, inclusive
- ``-DAYS`` - within a given number of days of today