annotate contrib/chg/README @ 38526:313a940d49a3

ui: add an uninterruptable context manager that can block SIGINT

The blocking of SIGINT is not done by default, but my hope is that we
will one day. This was inspired by Facebook's "nointerrupt" extension,
which is a bit more heavy-handed than this (whole commands are treated
as unsafe to interrupt). A future patch will enable this for varying
bits of Mercurial that are performing unsafe operations.

It's intentional that the KeyboardInterrupt is raised as the context
manager exits: during the span of the context manager interrupting
Mercurial could lead to data loss, but typically those spans are
fairly narrow, so we can let the unsafe block complete and then
terminate hg (which will leave the repo in a consistent state, even if
it's not the user's desired state).

.. api::

   New context manager ``ui.uninterruptable()`` to mark portions of a command
   as potentially unsafe places to interrupt Mercurial with Control-C or
   similar.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3716

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