Better documentation of :checksum and :checkout properties

* Explain the difference between :checkout and :checksum
* Document that hg method now supports these properties
document 719264d (even though it isn't merged yet)
Document that checksums may not be abbreviated

As requested in #626.
In hg, "checkout" is properly spelled "update"
Merge pull request #649 from DarwinAwardWinner/doc-improvements

Doc improvements