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 test
$ cd test
$ echo foo>foo
$ hg addremove
adding foo
$ hg commit -m "1"
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions
$ hg clone . ../branch
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd ../branch
$ hg co
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo bar>>foo
$ hg commit -m "2"
$ cd ../test
$ hg pull ../branch
pulling from ../branch
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
$ hg verify
checking changesets
checking manifests
crosschecking files in changesets and manifests
checking files
1 files, 2 changesets, 2 total revisions
$ hg co
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cat foo
foo
bar
$ hg manifest --debug
6f4310b00b9a147241b071a60c28a650827fb03d 644 foo
update to rev 0 with a date
$ hg upd -d foo 0
abort: you can't specify a revision and a date
[255]
$ cd ..