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.
Test for
b5605d88dc27: Make ui.prompt repeat on "unrecognized response" again
(issue897)
840e2b315c1f: Fix misleading error and prompts during update/merge
(issue556)
$ status() {
> echo "--- status ---"
> hg st -A file1 file2
> for file in file1 file2; do
> if [ -f $file ]; then
> echo "--- $file ---"
> cat $file
> else
> echo "*** $file does not exist"
> fi
> done
> }
$ hg init
$ echo 1 > file1
$ echo 2 > file2
$ hg ci -Am 'added file1 and file2'
adding file1
adding file2
$ hg rm file1
$ echo changed >> file2
$ hg ci -m 'removed file1, changed file2'
$ hg co 0
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo changed >> file1
$ hg rm file2
$ hg ci -m 'changed file1, removed file2'
created new head
Non-interactive merge:
$ hg merge -y
local changed file1 which remote deleted
use (c)hanged version or (d)elete? c
remote changed file2 which local deleted
use (c)hanged version or leave (d)eleted? c
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ status
--- status ---
M file2
C file1
--- file1 ---
1
changed
--- file2 ---
2
changed
Interactive merge:
$ hg co -C
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg merge --config ui.interactive=true <<EOF
> c
> d
> EOF
local changed file1 which remote deleted
use (c)hanged version or (d)elete? remote changed file2 which local deleted
use (c)hanged version or leave (d)eleted? 0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ status
--- status ---
file2: * (glob)
C file1
--- file1 ---
1
changed
*** file2 does not exist
Interactive merge with bad input:
$ hg co -C
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg merge --config ui.interactive=true <<EOF
> foo
> bar
> d
> baz
> c
> EOF
local changed file1 which remote deleted
use (c)hanged version or (d)elete? unrecognized response
local changed file1 which remote deleted
use (c)hanged version or (d)elete? unrecognized response
local changed file1 which remote deleted
use (c)hanged version or (d)elete? remote changed file2 which local deleted
use (c)hanged version or leave (d)eleted? unrecognized response
remote changed file2 which local deleted
use (c)hanged version or leave (d)eleted? 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ status
--- status ---
M file2
R file1
*** file1 does not exist
--- file2 ---
2
changed
Interactive merge with not enough input:
$ hg co -C
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg merge --config ui.interactive=true <<EOF
> d
> EOF
local changed file1 which remote deleted
use (c)hanged version or (d)elete? remote changed file2 which local deleted
use (c)hanged version or leave (d)eleted? abort: response expected
[255]
$ status
--- status ---
file2: * (glob)
C file1
--- file1 ---
1
changed
*** file2 does not exist