D3312: revlog: move shortest() to scmutil.shortesthexnodeidprefix() (API)

[martinvonz (Martin von Zweigbergk)]

martinvonz added a comment.


  In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3312#53423, @yuja wrote:
  
  > IIRC, @quark said it's in revlog because the implementation may vary
  >  depending on storage, such as looking up in radix tree and rewind?
  
  
  That's reasonable. Perhaps I'll just make shortesthexnodeidprefix() a thin wrapper then, so all it does (at the end of this series) is to delegate to the unfiltered repo. Does that seem okay with you?

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