contrib/chg/README
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 11:38:13 -0500
changeset 49972 88b81dc2d82b
parent 45557 4c8d9b53b1c7
permissions -rw-r--r--
debugshell: allow TortoiseHg builds to exit with the usual `quit()` command I've long been annoyed that `quit()` only randomly worked to exit the interpreter. When that happens, Ctrl+C doesn't work either (it simply prints "KeyboardInterrupt"), so then you have to `import sys` and `sys.exit()`. But it turns out that the behavior isn't random and it depended on which `hg.exe` was picked up on PATH first, because py2exe disables site initialization. I wasn't able to persuade the maintainer to allow an opt-in to initialization[1], but this works around it so that the behavior is now consistent however `hg.exe` is built. TortoiseHg 6.3.3 will be the first build that includes the site package, so handle the ImportError. [1] https://github.com/py2exe/py2exe/issues/154

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

Build environment variables:

 * HGPATH: the path to the hg executable to call when CHGHG and HG are not set,
   instead of "hg"
 * HGPATHREL=1: when CHGHG and HG are not set, the hg executable will be ./hg
   relative to the chg executable. Only works on linux, falls back to "hg"
   otherwise.