commit-graph: add a slab to store topological levels

In a later commit we will introduce corrected commit date as the
generation number v2. Corrected commit dates will be stored in the new
seperate Generation Data chunk. However, to ensure backwards
compatibility with "Old" Git we need to continue to write generation
number v1 (topological levels) to the commit data chunk. Thus, we need
to compute and store both versions of generation numbers to write the
commit-graph file.

Therefore, let's introduce a commit-slab `topo_level_slab` to store
topological levels; corrected commit date will be stored in the member
`generation` of struct commit_graph_data.

The macros `GENERATION_NUMBER_INFINITY` and `GENERATION_NUMBER_ZERO`
mark commits not in the commit-graph file and commits written by a
version of Git that did not compute generation numbers respectively.
Generation numbers are computed identically for both kinds of commits.

A "slab-miss" should return `GENERATION_NUMBER_INFINITY` as the commit
is not in the commit-graph file. However, since the slab is
zero-initialized, it returns 0 (or rather `GENERATION_NUMBER_ZERO`).
Thus, we no longer need to check if the topological level of a commit is
`GENERATION_NUMBER_INFINITY`.

We will add a pointer to the slab in `struct write_commit_graph_context`
and `struct commit_graph` to populate the slab in
`fill_commit_graph_info` if the commit has a pre-computed topological
level as in case of split commit-graphs.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Kumar <abhishekkumar8222@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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