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.
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/1089
$ hg init
$ mkdir a
$ echo a > a/b
$ hg ci -Am m
adding a/b
$ hg rm a
removing a/b
$ hg ci -m m a
$ mkdir a b
$ echo a > a/b
$ hg ci -Am m
adding a/b
$ hg rm a
removing a/b
$ cd b
Relative delete:
$ hg ci -m m ../a
$ cd ..