durin42 added a comment.
In https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3649#57906, @yuja wrote: > (resend because I forgot to remove the Phab shit, sorry for the noise.) > > > > It's surprising that `hg serve --print-url` spawns a daemon process! > > > > If it does not launch a daemon process, the procress caller (`xdg-open`, `midori`, `firefox`, etc.) waits the end of the stream to launch, so it waits that the `hg serve` procress ends! > > You can just run `hg serve -d --print-url`. > > The option could be named as `--daemon-print-url` if we needed such big > red switch, but I don't think that makes sense. On reflection I agree, it's a little too magical that --print-url daemonizes. Let's get a follow-up that doesn't do that, especially since -d is so easy to type. (I'd probably often use --print-url without --daemon, FWIW) REPOSITORY rHG Mercurial REVISION DETAIL https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3649 To: nspanti-logilab, #hg-reviewers, durin42 Cc: admin, KelvinTot, av6, yuja, mercurial-devel _______________________________________________ Mercurial-devel mailing list Mercurial-devel@mercurial-scm.org https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial-devel