contrib/chg/README
author Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Fri, 06 May 2016 17:53:06 -0500
branchstable
changeset 29089 222b8170d69e
parent 28454 8062869860b8
child 29345 62b890496de5
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progress: stop excessive clearing (issue4801) The progress bar was being cleared on every write(), regardless of whether it was currently displayed. This could foul up the display of any writes that didn't include a linebreak. In particular, the win32 mode of the color extension was turning single prompt string writes into two writes, and the resulting clear/write/clear/write pattern was making the prompt invisible. We fix this by insisting that we have shown a progress bar and haven't just cleared it (setting lastprint to 0). Conveniently, the test suite already had instances of duplicate clears.. that are now cleared up.

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.