rebase: improve error message for --base being empty or causing emptiness
Before it just said 'nothing to rebase'.
Now 'if "base" is an empty set:
abort: empty "base" revision set - can't compute rebase set
If the set of changesets to rebase can't be found from "base", it will fail as
before but with more explanation of what the problem was.
The name of the "base" option is not obvious - it is more like "samples
identifying the branch to rebase". The error messages for problems with the
specified "base" value will use that term and might thus also not be obvious,
but at least they are consistent with the option name. The name "base" will not
be used if the base only was specified implicitly as the working directory
parent.
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo line 1 > foo
$ hg ci -qAm 'add foo'
copy foo to bar and change both files
$ hg cp foo bar
$ echo line 2-1 >> foo
$ echo line 2-2 >> bar
$ hg ci -m 'cp foo bar; change both'
in another branch, change foo in a way that doesn't conflict with
the other changes
$ hg up -qC 0
$ echo line 0 > foo
$ hg cat foo >> foo
$ hg ci -m 'change foo'
created new head
we get conflicts that shouldn't be there
$ hg merge -P
changeset: 1:484bf6903104
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: cp foo bar; change both
$ hg merge --debug
searching for copies back to rev 1
unmatched files in other:
bar
all copies found (* = to merge, ! = divergent, % = renamed and deleted):
src: 'foo' -> dst: 'bar' *
checking for directory renames
resolving manifests
branchmerge: True, force: False, partial: False
ancestor: e6dc8efe11cc, local: 6a0df1dad128+, remote: 484bf6903104
foo: remote copied to bar -> m
preserving foo for resolve of bar
foo: versions differ -> m
preserving foo for resolve of foo
updating: foo 1/2 files (50.00%)
picked tool 'internal:merge' for bar (binary False symlink False)
merging foo and bar to bar
my bar@6a0df1dad128+ other bar@484bf6903104 ancestor foo@e6dc8efe11cc
premerge successful
updating: foo 2/2 files (100.00%)
picked tool 'internal:merge' for foo (binary False symlink False)
merging foo
my foo@6a0df1dad128+ other foo@484bf6903104 ancestor foo@e6dc8efe11cc
premerge successful
0 files updated, 2 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
contents of foo
$ cat foo
line 0
line 1
line 2-1
contents of bar
$ cat bar
line 0
line 1
line 2-2
$ cd ..