diffhelpers: backport
9e40bc4c1bde from C implementation
9e40bc4c1bde just says "harden testhunk." I don't think this would be
the case, but it makes some sense to avoid negative index.
Issue351: mq: qrefresh can create extra revlog entry
$ echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
$ echo "mq=" >> $HGRCPATH
$ hg init
$ hg qinit
$ echo b > b
$ hg ci -A -m foo
adding b
$ echo cc > b
$ hg qnew -f foo.diff
$ echo b > b
$ hg qrefresh
$ hg debugindex b
rev linkrev nodeid p1 p2
0 0 1e88685f5dde 000000000000 000000000000