mercurial on ubuntu

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "MH" == Marcus Harnisch <mh-mercurial at online.de> writes:

> On 20/02/2021 19.07, Ernie Rael wrote:
>> Doing "apt install mercurial" installed 5.5.1. So I thought I'd get
>> the latest, 5.7.1. The download page suggest using some PPA for
>> ubuntu, it seems years out of date.

> Indeed we had a brief discussion a while back:

>   https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2018-March/050807.html
>   https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2019-April/051194.html

> The recommendation to compile from sources doesn't make Mercurial an
> attractive option. The simple ‘make all install’ doesn't install ‘chg’ 
> (which I believe is essential for a decent user experience), nor does
> it install shell completion, etc.

Well I can't recall that the official deb did this neither (at least not
for 16.04 or the launchpad ones,  so I compile my own deb).

Maybe I am missing here something but what is chg supposed to be