contrib/chg/README
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Sun, 16 Jul 2017 17:40:36 -0400
changeset 33544 4c4e95cae33a
parent 29357 66d41c9e9222
child 45557 4c8d9b53b1c7
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archive: use a templater to build the metadata file There are no visible changes here. I'm starting to wonder if adding the '+' to the 'node' line instead of a separate key line in 3047167733dc was the right thing to do. The '{node}' keyword never includes '+' elsewhere, and the way setup.py works, it would truncate it anyway. Additionally, the file is missing '{p2node}' when 'wdir()' merges are archived. I thought about adding an 'identify' line that would correspond to `hg id -n`. But the other nodes are the full 40 characters, and the output most useful for versioning is the short form. All of this cries out for customization via templating. (Although maybe having the short identify line by default is still a good idea.)

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.
 * CHGTIMEOUT specifies how many seconds chg will wait before giving up
   connecting to a cmdserver. If it is 0, chg will wait forever. Default: 60