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shelve: don't delete "." when rebase is a no-op (issue4398)

When unshelving and facing a conflict, if we resolve all conflicts in
favour of the committed changes instead of the shelved changes, then
the ensuing implicit rebase is a no-op. That is, there is nothing to
rebase. In this case, there are no extra intermediate shelve commits
to strip either. Prior to this change, the commit being unshelved to
would be marked for destruction in a rather catastrophic way.

The relevant part of the test case failed as follows:

    $ hg unshelve -c
    unshelve of 'default' complete
    $ hg diff
    warning: ignoring unknown working parent 33f7f61e6c5e!
    diff --git a/a/a b/a/a
    new file mode 100644
    --- /dev/null
           b/a/a
    @@ -0,0   1,3 @@
      a
      c
      x
    $ hg status
    warning: ignoring unknown working parent 33f7f61e6c5e!
    M a/a
    ? a/a.orig
    ? foo/foo
    $ hg summary
    warning: ignoring unknown working parent 33f7f61e6c5e!
    parent: -1:000000000000  (no revision checked out)
    branch: default
    commit: 1 modified, 2 unknown (new branch head)
    update: 4 new changesets (update)

With this change, this test case now passes.

Mercurial supports several ways to specify individual revisions.

A plain integer is treated as a revision number. Negative integers are
treated as sequential offsets from the tip, with -1 denoting the tip,
-2 denoting the revision prior to the tip, and so forth.

A 40-digit hexadecimal string is treated as a unique revision
identifier.

A hexadecimal string less than 40 characters long is treated as a
unique revision identifier and is referred to as a short-form
identifier. A short-form identifier is only valid if it is the prefix
of exactly one full-length identifier.

Any other string is treated as a bookmark, tag, or branch name. A
bookmark is a movable pointer to a revision. A tag is a permanent name
associated with a revision. A branch name denotes the tipmost open branch head
of that branch - or if they are all closed, the tipmost closed head of the
branch. Bookmark, tag, and branch names must not contain the ":" character.

The reserved name "tip" always identifies the most recent revision.

The reserved name "null" indicates the null revision. This is the
revision of an empty repository, and the parent of revision 0.

The reserved name "." indicates the working directory parent. If no
working directory is checked out, it is equivalent to null. If an
uncommitted merge is in progress, "." is the revision of the first
parent.