merge: check argument value with if/raise instead of an assert
This shouldn't make any difference for legal code, but it'll prevent
the assertion from being optimized out if someone decides to do -O on
our code.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D6879
#require emacs
$ emacs -q -no-site-file -batch -l $TESTDIR/../contrib/hg-test-mode.el \
> -f ert-run-tests-batch-and-exit
Running 1 tests (*) (glob)
passed 1/1 hg-test-mode--compilation-mode-support
Ran 1 tests, 1 results as expected (*) (glob)