rebase message confusion

[Greg Ward]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Sune Foldager <cryo at cyanite.org> wrote:
> Before I can do that, however, I had to make sense of what I consider at
> best highly confusing status, debug and error messages from hg rebase.
> For instace, what does this mean?
>
> "cannot rebase an ancestor"
>
> well it makes you think at least. I am trying to rebase x to an ancestor
> of x? or to a descendant of x? the latter is correct. But why not the
> much clearer "source is ancestor of destination"?

I completely agree with you: rebase's error messages are very
confusing.  +1 on improving them and to heck with compatibility.   ;-)

Greg