git-svn: handle merge-base failures

Change git-svn to warn and continue when merge-base fails while processing svn
merge tickets.

merge-base can fail when a partial branch is created and merged back to trunk
in svn, because it cannot find a common ancestor between the partial branch and
trunk.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Myrick <amyrick@apple.com>
Acked-by: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Acked-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>

git-svn.perl

@@ -3158,10 +3158,21 @@ sub find_extra_svn_parents {
 		my $ranges = $ranges{$merge_tip};
 
 		# check out 'new' tips
-		my $merge_base = command_oneline(
+		my $merge_base;
-			"merge-base",
+		eval {
-			@$parents, $merge_tip,
+			$merge_base = command_oneline(
-		       );
+				"merge-base",
+				@$parents, $merge_tip,
+			);
+		};
+		if ($@) {
+			die "An error occurred during merge-base"
+				unless $@->isa("Git::Error::Command");
+
+			warn "W: Cannot find common ancestor between ".
+			     "@$parents and $merge_tip. Ignoring merge info.\n";
+			next;
+		}
 
 		# double check that there are no missing non-merge commits
 		my (@incomplete) = check_cherry_pick(