diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -1328,7 +1328,10 @@ def bundle(ui, repo, fname, dest=None, *
     """
     revs = None
     if 'rev' in opts:
-        revs = scmutil.revrange(repo, opts['rev'])
+        revstrings = opts['rev']
+        revs = scmutil.revrange(repo, revstrings)
+        if revstrings and not revs:
+            raise error.Abort(_('no commits to bundle'))
 
     bundletype = opts.get('type', 'bzip2').lower()
     try:
diff --git a/tests/test-bundle.t b/tests/test-bundle.t
--- a/tests/test-bundle.t
+++ b/tests/test-bundle.t
@@ -728,4 +728,8 @@ bundle single branch
   checking files
   4 files, 3 changesets, 5 total revisions
 
-  $ cd ..
+== Test bundling no commits
+
+  $ hg bundle -r 'public()' no-output.hg
+  abort: no commits to bundle
+  [255]