diff -r 4ec6a24029d2 -r 0650be877a37 mercurial/cext/revlog.c
--- a/mercurial/cext/revlog.c	Fri Nov 09 18:43:16 2018 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/cext/revlog.c	Fri Nov 09 18:45:23 2018 +0100
@@ -1078,6 +1078,24 @@
 	return (end_offset - start_offset) + (int64_t)end_size;
 }
 
+/* returns revs[startidx:endidx] without empty trailing revs */
+static Py_ssize_t trim_endidx(indexObject *self, const Py_ssize_t *revs,
+                              Py_ssize_t startidx, Py_ssize_t endidx)
+{
+	int length;
+	while (endidx > 1 && endidx > startidx) {
+		length = index_get_length(self, revs[endidx - 1]);
+		if (length < 0) {
+			return -1;
+		}
+		if (length != 0) {
+			break;
+		}
+		endidx -= 1;
+	}
+	return endidx;
+}
+
 static inline int nt_level(const char *node, Py_ssize_t level)
 {
 	int v = node[level >> 1];