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debian: support a "chg-first" installation mechanism (hg is actually chg) This mechanism builds chg such that it looks for `hg` to be available at /usr/lib/mercurial/hg instead of in the $PATH as `hg`, and makes the `hg` in /usr/bin be a symlink to `chg`. It's important to note that the hg binary must continue to be named `hg`. If we wanted to instead place it at /usr/bin/pyhg or something similar, we would need to modify Mercurial to allow that basename. Failure to do so would break Mercurial's shell aliases that use `hg`, `chg`, or `$HG`. I don't know if we should ever have a setup like this be the default setup, but I'm willing to get more information on our experience with it for making such a determination. Actually making it the default might be rather involved, as we don't maintain the official debian packaging rules. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10020
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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

Build environment variables:

* HGPATH: the path to the hg executable to call when CHGHG and HG are not set,
instead of "hg"
* HGPATHREL=1: when CHGHG and HG are not set, the hg executable will be ./hg
relative to the chg executable. Only works on linux, falls back to "hg"
otherwise.