D4312: New bookflow extension for bookmark-based branching

[durin42 (Augie Fackler)]

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  There's been some good discussion on this. I'm sympathetic to both arguments here, namely: "we could improve bookmarks and make them less bad" and "bookmarks are a dead end and nobody should use them and we shouldn't improve them" (or thereabouts - I'm summarizing complicated positions to less than a sentence, so bear with me.) I think not following up on our plans to at least make plausible incremental improvements to bookmarks serves our users poorly, and this extension merits landing as an experimental extension. We can always spin it back out if we get unhappy with it.
  
  I'm going to land this patch largely as-is on default, with the following tweaks: I'm adding (EXPERIMENTAL) to the docstring of the extension so we can iterate its behavior, some misc. check-code fixes, tweak the commit message slightly to make check-commit happy.
  
  Thanks! Let's try and collect thoughts with @krbullock at some point on what of this behavior should land where.

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  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4312

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