scmutil: use a tuple of possible values instead of using startswith() This patch also adds a review comment which is helpful as inline comment. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1761

show: use revlog function to compute length of the longest shortest node As the core part of shortest() was extracted at 448725a2ef73, we no logner need a templater.

commands: use the new API to access hidden changesets in various commands In previous patches, we have added an internal API to unhide hidden changesets. This patch makes the following command use that api in nowarn mode i.e. there will be no warning while accessing hidden changesets. cat, diff, export, files, heads, identify, log, manifest, parents, status This patch also adds test demonstarting the behaviour. .. feature:: Accessing hidden changesets Set config option 'experimental.directaccess = True' to access hidden changesets from read only commands. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1735