annotate contrib/chg/README @ 35854:568917059243

testrunner: make reading of test times work with #testcases

Due to a bug that will be fixed in the next patch, we never actually
read back .testcases, so we didn't notice that it could not be parsed
successfully when there are #testcases tests. The parsing failed on
lines like "test-amend-subrepo.t (case obsstore-off) 32.420" because
we used a simple string.split() call and expected all parts but the
first to be floating point numbers (and "(case" isn't, for
example). Fix by using a regex instead.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1960

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