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17 <h1>Mercurial for Windows</h1>
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18
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19 <p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p>
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20
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21 <p>Mercurial is a command-line application. You must run it from
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22 the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a
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23 href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).</p>
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25 <p><div class="indented"><i>Note: the standard <a
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26 href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> msys startup script uses
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27 rxvt which has problems setting up standard input and output.
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30 <p>For documentation, please visit the <a
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31 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.
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32 You can also download a free book, <a
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33 href="http://hgbook.red-bean.com/">Distributed revision control
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34 with Mercurial</a>.</p>
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36 <p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Program Files\Mercurial</tt>. The
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37 Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>.</p>
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38
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39 <h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1>
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40
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41 <p>The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is to
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42 just type the following at the command prompt:</p>
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44 <pre>
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45 hg
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47
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48 <p>This command should print a useful help message. If it does,
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49 other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.</p>
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50
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51 <h1>Configuration notes</h1>
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52 <h4>Default editor</h4>
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53 The default editor for commit messages is 'notepad'. You can set the EDITOR
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54 (or HGEDITOR) environment variable to specify your preference or set it in
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55 mercurial.ini:
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56 <pre>
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57 [ui]
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58 editor = whatever
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61 <h4>Configuring a Merge program</h4>
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62 It should be emphasized that Mercurial by itself doesn't attempt to do a
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63 Merge at the file level, neither does it make any attempt to Resolve the conflicts.
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65 By default, Mercurial will use the merge program defined by the HGMERGE environment
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66 variable, or uses the one defined in the mercurial.ini file. (see <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MergeProgram">MergeProgram</a> on the Mercurial Wiki for more information)
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67
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68 <h1>Reporting problems</h1>
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70 <p>Before you report any problems, please consult the <a
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71 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a> and
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72 see if your question is already in our list of <a
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73 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/FAQ">Frequently
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74 Answered Questions</a> (the "FAQ").
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76 <p>If you cannot find an answer to your question, please feel
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77 free to send mail to the Mercurial mailing list, at <a
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78 href="mailto:mercurial@selenic.com">mercurial@selenic.com</a>.
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79 <b>Remember</b>, the more useful information you include in your
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80 report, the easier it will be for us to help you!</p>
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81
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82 <p>If you are IRC-savvy, that's usually the fastest way to get
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83 help. Go to <tt>#mercurial</tt> on
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84 <tt>irc.freenode.net</tt>.</p>
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85
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86 <h1>Author and copyright information</h1>
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87
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88 <p>Mercurial was written by <a href="http://www.selenic.com">Matt
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89 Mackall</a>, and is maintained by Matt and a team of
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90 volunteers.</p>
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91
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92 <p>The Windows installer was written by <a
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93 href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog">Bryan
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94 O'Sullivan</a>.</p>
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96 <p>Mercurial is Copyright 2005-2007 Matt Mackall and others.
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97 See the <tt>Contributors.txt</tt> file for a list of contributors.</p>
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99 <p>Mercurial is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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100 modify it under the terms of the <a
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101 href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public
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102 License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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103 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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104 version.</p>
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106 <p>Mercurial is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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107 but <b>without any warranty</b>; without even the implied
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108 warranty of <b>merchantability</b> or <b>fitness for a
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109 particular purpose</b>. See the GNU General Public License for
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110 more details.</p>
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