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chg: set CHGHG before connecting to command server cf4d2f31 (!523) changed chg to set `CHGHG` itself when spawning a new command server, in order to ensure that the path to the `hg` executable would be checked during server validation. (This is useful when chg is built with `HGPATHREL`). However, that change broke chg because it failed to set `CHGHG` before trying to connect to an existing command server. This means that if `CHGHG` is not present in the environment, chg will always spawn a new command server, entirely negating the point of chg. This breakage wasn't initially caught because of the difficulty of writing automated tests with the `HGPATHREL` feature enabled, which meant the change was only tested manually to make sure that it fixed the problem with `HGPATHREL` that prompted the change. In practice, this functionality is only really useful when chg is built with `HGPATHREL`, so I considered wrapping it in an `#ifdef` to preserve the old behavior by default. However, this makes it hard to write tests since one would have to explicitly set `HGPATHREL=1` when running `run-tests.py` (which is why the original change lacked tests). It would be great if there were a way of testing features that are gated behind conditional compilation.
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Mercurial for Plan 9 from Bell Labs
===================================

This directory contains support for Mercurial on Plan 9 from Bell Labs
platforms. It is assumed that the version of Python running on these
systems supports the ANSI/POSIX Environment (APE). At the time of this
writing, the bichued/python port is the most commonly installed version
of Python on these platforms. If a native port of Python is ever made,
some minor modification will need to be made to support some of the more
esoteric requirements of the platform rather than those currently made
(cf. posix.py).

By default, installations will have the factotum extension enabled; this
extension permits factotum(4) to act as an authentication agent for
HTTP repositories. Additionally, an extdiff command named 9diff is
enabled which generates diff(1) compatible output suitable for use with
the plumber(4).

Commit messages are plumbed using E if no editor is defined; users must
update the plumbed file to continue, otherwise the hg process must be
interrupted.

Some work remains with regard to documentation. Section 5 manual page
references for hgignore and hgrc need to be re-numbered to section 6 (file
formats) and a new man page writer should be written to support the
Plan 9 man macro set. Until these issues can be resolved, manual pages
are elided from the installation.

Basic install:

% mk install # do a system-wide install
% hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
% hg # see help

A proto(2) file is included in this directory as an example of how a
binary distribution could be packaged, ostensibly with contrib(1).

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.