amend: moving first assignment of newid closer to its use...
amend: moving first assignment of newid closer to its use
newid was needlessly further away from where its intended to be used
leading to bad readability. This commit moves it to address the same. The end
goal is to remove the redundant commit in the amend code path and this commit
takes care of cleaning up some unrelated code before that change.
Test Plan:
ran the test suite
Differential Revision:
https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D597
