I've forgotten to close a transaction a few times and while the
message ('assertion failed: self.closed') is clear to me now, it
probably won't be clear to others or to me in the future.
This extracts a bit from `Transaction::check_out()` for taking a
Conflict, materializing it, and writing the resulting plain file to
the store. It will soon be reused.
We currently recalculate the entire evolution state whenever a new
commit is added within a transaction. That's clearly wasteful. This
commit makes the state-update incremental.
