bug#22032: 24.3; VC doesn't handle hg hidden revisions

[Glenn Hutchings]

In the *vc-change-log* buffer, pressing '=' should display the diff 
twixt the current and previous revisions. This fails when (1) the HG 
backend is being used, and (2) the mercurial change history contains 
hidden revisions.

Hidden revisions are a fairly recent mercurial feature. By default, 
they're not displayed; hg needs a "--hidden" argument to consider them. 
This makes the changeset numbers non-consecutive. Here's an example:

changeset: 2:8ba76001308a
tag: tip
user: Glenn Hutchings <zondo42@gmail.com>
date: Fri Nov 27 11:11:06 2015 +0000
summary: Add a line.

changeset: 0:db414dd2e5c1
user: Glenn Hutchings <zondo42@gmail.com>
date: Fri Nov 27 11:10:31 2015 +0000
summary: Add file.

The lisp function to find the previous rev number 
(vc-hg-previous-revision) just decrements the current rev by 1. In the 
example above, doing a diff on changeset 2 would try to use the hidden 
revision 1 and then mercurial gives an error to the effect of "rev 1 is 
hidden" (sorry, don't have the exact text to hand). Possible fix: 
actually move to the previous rev in the buffer, and get the rev number 
from that.

To repeat it: get a mercurial repo with hidden changeset (as above) and 
try the command with latest mercurial.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7)
of 2014-03-07 on lamiak, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11501000
System Description: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela

Configured using:
`configure '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu' '--build' 'x86_64-linux-gnu'
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'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes'
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' 

'--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--with-x=yes'
'--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars'
'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector
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'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro'
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Important settings:
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Load-path shadows:
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/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cmake-mode
/usr/share/emacs/24.3/site-lisp/debian-startup hides 
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup

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