contrib/chg/README
author Jun Wu <quark@fb.com>
Mon, 13 Jun 2016 21:30:14 +0100
changeset 29345 62b890496de5
parent 28454 8062869860b8
child 29357 66d41c9e9222
permissions -rw-r--r--
chg: make timeout adjustable Before this patch, chg will give up when it cannot connect to the new server within 10 seconds. If the host has high load during that time, 10 seconds is not enough. This patch makes it adjustable using the CHGTIMEOUT environment variable.

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: 10