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.
$ cat <<EOF > merge
> import sys, os
> print "merging for", os.path.basename(sys.argv[1])
> EOF
$ HGMERGE="python ../merge"; export HGMERGE
$ hg init A1
$ cd A1
$ echo This is file foo1 > foo
$ echo This is file bar1 > bar
$ hg add foo bar
$ hg commit -m "commit text"
$ cd ..
$ hg clone A1 B1
updating to branch default
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd A1
$ rm bar
$ hg remove bar
$ hg commit -m "commit test"
$ cd ../B1
$ echo This is file foo22 > foo
$ hg commit -m "commit test"
$ cd ..
$ hg clone A1 A2
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg clone B1 B2
updating to branch default
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd A1
$ hg pull ../B1
pulling from ../B1
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg merge
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg commit -m "commit test"
bar should remain deleted.
$ hg manifest --debug
f9b0e817f6a48de3564c6b2957687c5e7297c5a0 644 foo
$ cd ../B2
$ hg pull ../A2
pulling from ../A2
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg merge
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg commit -m "commit test"
bar should remain deleted.
$ hg manifest --debug
f9b0e817f6a48de3564c6b2957687c5e7297c5a0 644 foo
$ cd ..