title: Easy, painless way to test new mercurial hooks (that are works in progress)
body: <p>I'm in the process of writing a mercurial changegroup hook. I don't have everything figured out yet, but the process of trial and error is made more painful by the fact that I have to keep committing and pushing just to test my work in progress. </p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to 'fake' a trigger to execute my changegroup hook with the current status of the repository to be used for it's parameters?</p>
  
  <p>Any help to streamline this process would be very much appreciated.
  Thanks
  Nick</p>