topic: fix some API to make it more robust The new code can deal with changes in upstream mercurial.

rewriteutil: move allowdivergence check to foldcheck() foldcheck() calls precheck() first and then performs more fold-specific checks.

test: change to output around transaction timing CORE-TEST-OUTPUT-UPDATE: d7304434390f

branching: merge with stable There have been multiple fix on stable.

stablerange: add some data from field testing This show that in number of stable range to track stay reasonable.

stablerange: add a debugstablerangecache command The command display get some data about stable range in a repository.

stablerange: add some documentation about the general concept

stablesort: add some field data about stable sort cache

stablesort: introduce a small debugstablesortcache command This give a small insight on the cache content.

stablesort: add some documentation for stablesort This should help people to understand what is going on here.

fold: check allowdivergence before folding obsolete changesets (issue5817)

tests: demonstrate that fold doesn't care about allowdivergence config option

stack: remove unnecessary copying of rdependencies rdependencies is not modified in any way in this method, so no need to copy it.

stack: make a deep copy of `dependencies` before modifying its items The algorithm later on in this method uses .remove() to remove individual elements from items in dependencies, which before this patch modified the cached property contents. So for further use that dictionary was in the form of {1: set([])}, i.e. all sets were empty. This deep copy block could be way simpler, but the problem is that sometimes we get lists of _succs() from evolvebits.builddependencies(). Note: this happens only in topic's stack version of builddependencies() and it looks like a suboptimal way to handle multiple successors (see evolve's counterpart function). stack.builddependencies method is removed, it has served its purpose (see the previous patch).

stack: demonstrate that not reusing cached property gives different results Instead of using self._dependencies, which is a cached property, let's get fresh deps and rdeps in stack.revs method using a newly introduced stack.builddependencies method (will be removed in the next patch). This makes it easier to explain why the next patch is correct.