import: deprecate --base
This option was a convenient hack introduced in Mercurial early days which
unfortunately survived until now.
--- a/mercurial/commands.py Sun Jun 05 13:27:06 2011 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py Sun Jun 05 22:24:02 2011 +0200
@@ -2993,7 +2993,7 @@
[('p', 'strip', 1,
_('directory strip option for patch. This has the same '
'meaning as the corresponding patch option'), _('NUM')),
- ('b', 'base', '', _('base path'), _('PATH')),
+ ('b', 'base', '', _('base path (DEPRECATED)'), _('PATH')),
('f', 'force', None, _('skip check for outstanding uncommitted changes')),
('', 'no-commit', None,
_("don't commit, just update the working directory")),