annotate contrib/chg/README @ 35710:5cd60b0587a8

evolution: make reporting of new unstable changesets optional

This makes it possible to turn off the reporting of unstable
changesets (e.g. "1 new orphan changesets"), just in case it's too
slow for some users. Anyone who's been using the evolve extension has
already been accepting the cost of the reporting, so this is just for
the few users who have turned on obsmarkers but not been using the
evolve extension (as I believe Facebook has).

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1868

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