rebase: improve error message on improper phases
The previous error message had two issues: The first issue was that it
wasn't, in fact, an error but a warning, even though it described a
fatal error condition preventing the successful completion of the
command. The second was that it didn't mention the immutable
changesets, leaving the user guessing at the true cause of the error.
The main downside to this change is that we now get an 'abort: can't
abort...' message which technically contradicts itself. In this case,
I blame that on the two uses we have for the word; if it weren't for
backwards compatibility, we could make util.Abort print out 'error:
<whatever>'.
Initial setup.
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ touch thefile
$ hg ci -A -m 'Initial commit.'
adding thefile
Create a tag.
$ hg tag branchortag
Create a branch with the same name as the tag.
$ hg branch branchortag
marked working directory as branch branchortag
(branches are permanent and global, did you want a bookmark?)
$ hg ci -m 'Create a branch with the same name as a tag.'
This is what we have:
$ hg log
changeset: 2:10519b3f489a
branch: branchortag
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Create a branch with the same name as a tag.
changeset: 1:2635c45ca99b
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Added tag branchortag for changeset f57387372b5d
changeset: 0:f57387372b5d
tag: branchortag
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Initial commit.
Update to the tag:
$ hg up 'tag(branchortag)'
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg parents
changeset: 0:f57387372b5d
tag: branchortag
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Initial commit.
Updating to the branch:
$ hg up 'branch(branchortag)'
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg parents
changeset: 2:10519b3f489a
branch: branchortag
tag: tip
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: Create a branch with the same name as a tag.