#cHg

A bit faster Mercurial client for Unix with per-user cmdserver daemon.

#Install

For local use:

1. Run make local (or gmake local on FreeBSD)
2. Create symlink to chg from your PATH

Debian:

1. Run make deb
2. Install by sudo dpkg -i ../mercurial-chg_*.deb

Other platforms:

1. Run make install

If you see failed to import extension chgserver error, extension modules wouldn't be installed to the right path. In that case, you'll need to copy chgserver.py* and _chgutil.so (or _chgutil.dylib) to the hgext directory. You can get the installation path by hg debuginstall.

#Usage

Same as hg. e.g.

% chg stat

You may want to add the alias:

% alias hg=chg

To terminate background cmdserver:

% chg --kill-chg-daemon

To reload configuration files:

% chg --reload-chg-daemon

#Environment Variables

cHg updates os.environ on each request, but some variables cannot make an effect. The following variables are specially handled by cHg:

• reload config if HGPLAIN or HGPLAINEXCEPT changed, but some behaviors may not change.
• reload message catalog if LANG, LANGUAGE or LC_MESSAGES changed.
• CHGHG or HG is the path to the 'hg' executable spawned as the background cmdserver.

The following variables are available for testing purpose:

• CHGDEBUG enables debug message of cHg.
• CHGSOCKNAME specifies socket path of background cmdserver.