# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
# Date 2015-11-01 01:45:46
# Node ID 88c4e97b96691250ee446081cb00deb7c142fa46
# Parent  6fabc9317b78e43d9a272374ad15849852051dc5

scmutil: abort if an empty revision is given to revpair()

When using 'extdiff --patch' to check the changes in a rebase, 'precursors(x)'
evaluated to an empty set because I forgot the --hidden flag, so the other
revision was used as the replacement for the empty set.  The result was the
patch for the other revision was diffed against itself, and the tool saying
there were no differences.  That's misleading since the expected diff args were
silently changed, so it's better to bail out.

The other uses of scmutil.revpair() are commands.diff and commands.status, and
it doesn't make sense to allow an empty revision there either.  The code here
was suggested by Yuya Nishihara.

diff --git a/mercurial/scmutil.py b/mercurial/scmutil.py
--- a/mercurial/scmutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/scmutil.py
@@ -717,6 +717,9 @@ def revpair(repo, revs):
 
     if first is None:
         raise error.Abort(_('empty revision range'))
+    if (first == second and len(revs) >= 2
+        and not all(revrange(repo, [r]) for r in revs)):
+        raise error.Abort(_('empty revision on one side of range'))
 
     # if top-level is range expression, the result must always be a pair
     if first == second and len(revs) == 1 and not _pairspec(revs[0]):
diff --git a/tests/test-extdiff.t b/tests/test-extdiff.t
--- a/tests/test-extdiff.t
+++ b/tests/test-extdiff.t
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ Should diff cloned files directly:
   [1]
 #endif
 
+Specifying an empty revision should abort.
+
+  $ hg extdiff --patch --rev 'ancestor()' --rev 1
+  abort: empty revision on one side of range
+  [255]
+
 Test diff during merge:
 
   $ hg update -C 0