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r3863 <h1>Mercurial for Windows</h1>
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<p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p>
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Mercurial is a command-line application. You must run it from
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<i>Note: the standard <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a>
msys startup script uses rxvt which has problems setting up
standard input and output. Running bash directly works
correctly.</i>
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For documentation, please visit the <a
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You can also download a free book, <a
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Guide</a>.
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By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Program
Files\Mercurial</tt>. The Mercurial command is called
<tt>hg.exe</tt>.
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<h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1>
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The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is
to just type the following at the command prompt:
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hg
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This command should print a useful help message. If it does,
other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.
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The default editor for commit messages is 'notepad'. You can set
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editor = whatever
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r8438 <h4>Configuring a Merge program</h4>
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It should be emphasized that Mercurial by itself doesn't attempt
to do a Merge at the file level, neither does it make any
attempt to Resolve the conflicts.
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By default, Mercurial will use the merge program defined by the
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in the <tt>mercurial.ini</tt> file. (see <a
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on the Mercurial Wiki for more information)
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r1288 <h1>Reporting problems</h1>
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Before you report any problems, please consult the <a
href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>
and see if your question is already in our list of <a
href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/FAQ">Frequently
Answered Questions</a> (the "FAQ").
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If you cannot find an answer to your question, please feel free
to send mail to the Mercurial mailing list, at <a
href="mailto:mercurial@selenic.com">mercurial@selenic.com</a>.
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If you are IRC-savvy, that's usually the fastest way to get
help. Go to <tt>#mercurial</tt> on <tt>irc.freenode.net</tt>.
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<h1>Author and copyright information</h1>
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Mercurial was written by <a href="http://www.selenic.com">Matt
Mackall</a>, and is maintained by Matt and a team of volunteers.
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The Windows installer was written by <a
href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog">Bryan O'Sullivan</a>.
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Mercurial is Copyright 2005-2009 Matt Mackall and others. See
the <tt>Contributors.txt</tt> file for a list of contributors.
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Mercurial is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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Mercurial is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
<b>without any warranty</b>; without even the implied warranty
of <b>merchantability</b> or <b>fitness for a particular
purpose</b>. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.
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