sparse-revlog: protect C code against delta chain including nullrev For unclear reasons, some repositories include nullrev (-1). Re-computing delta for such repo remove nullrev from all chain, so some older versions have been creating them. This currently raise an IndexError with the new C code doing chain slicing as it expect all item to be positive. Both python and C code for reading delta chain preserve nullrev, and the Python code for chain slicing handle the case fine. So we take the safe route and make the new C code works fine in that case.