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      <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

      <html>

        <head>

          <title>Mercurial for Windows</title>

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          <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >  

          <style type="text/css">

            <!--

            .indented

            {

            padding-left: 10pt;

            }

            -->

          </style>

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        <body>

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          <h1>Mercurial for Windows</h1>

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          <p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p>

          <p>Mercurial is a command-line application.  You must run it from

            the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a

            href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).</p>

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          <p><div class="indented"><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></div>

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          <p>For documentation, please visit the <a

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            href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.

            You can also download a free book, <a

            href="http://hgbook.red-bean.com/">Distributed revision control

            with Mercurial</a>.</p>

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          <p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>.  The

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            Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>.</p>

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          <h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1>

          <p>The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is to

            just type the following at the command prompt:</p>

          <pre>

      hg

      </pre>

          <p>This command should print a useful help message.  If it does,

            other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.</p>

        Lee Cantey
    
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          <h1>Configuration notes</h1>

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      	<h4>Default editor</h4>

      	The default editor for commit messages is 'notepad'. You can set the EDITOR

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          (or HGEDITOR) environment variable to specify your preference or set it in

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          mercurial.ini:

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          <pre>

      [ui]

      editor = whatever

      </pre>

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      	<h4>Configuring a Merge program</h4>

      	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.

          By default, Mercurial will use the merge program defined by the HGMERGE environment 

          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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          <h1>Reporting problems</h1>

          <p>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").

          <p>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>.

            <b>Remember</b>, the more useful information you include in your

            report, the easier it will be for us to help you!</p>

          <p>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>.</p>

          <h1>Author and copyright information</h1>

          <p>Mercurial was written by <a href="http://www.selenic.com">Matt

      	Mackall</a>, and is maintained by Matt and a team of

      	volunteers.</p>

          <p>The Windows installer was written by <a

      	href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog">Bryan

      	O'Sullivan</a>.</p>

        Thomas Arendsen Hein
    
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          <p>Mercurial is Copyright 2005-2007 Matt Mackall and others.

      	See the <tt>Contributors.txt</tt> file for a list of contributors.</p>

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          <p>Mercurial is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

            modify it under the terms of the <a

      	href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public

      	License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either

            version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later

            version.</p>

          <p>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.</p>

        </body>

      </html>

	Site-wide shortcuts
/	Use quick search box
g h	Goto home page
g g	Goto my private gists page
g G	Goto my public gists page
g 0-9	Goto bookmarked items from 0-9
n r	New repository page
n g	New gist page

	Repositories
g s	Goto summary page
g c	Goto changelog page
g f	Goto files page
g F	Goto files page with file search activated
g p	Goto pull requests page
g o	Goto repository settings
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t s	Toggle sidebar on some pages

Bryan O'Sullivan Turn the win32 README into a HTML file for now.	r1288	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
		<html>
		<head>
		<title>Mercurial for Windows</title>
Lee Cantey update windows readme to document msys/mingw rxvt problems.	r2091	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
		<style type="text/css">
		<!--
		.indented
		{
		padding-left: 10pt;
		}
		-->
		</style>
Bryan O'Sullivan Turn the win32 README into a HTML file for now.	r1288	</head>

		<body>
Matt Mackall Remove hard-coded version numbers and release notes from packaging	r3863	<h1>Mercurial for Windows</h1>
Bryan O'Sullivan Turn the win32 README into a HTML file for now.	r1288
		<p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p>

		<p>Mercurial is a command-line application. You must run it from
		the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a
		href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).</p>
Lee Cantey update windows readme to document msys/mingw rxvt problems.	r2091
		<p><div class="indented"><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></div>
Bryan O'Sullivan Turn the win32 README into a HTML file for now.	r1288
		<p>For documentation, please visit the <a
Bryan O'Sullivan Update binary installer files.	r4723	href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.
		You can also download a free book, <a
		href="http://hgbook.red-bean.com/">Distributed revision control
		with Mercurial</a>.</p>
Bryan O'Sullivan Turn the win32 README into a HTML file for now.	r1288
		<p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>. The
Marco Barisione Automatically add the path of hg to %PATH% using add_path	r2384	Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>.</p>
Bryan O'Sullivan Turn the win32 README into a HTML file for now.	r1288
		<h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1>

		<p>The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is to
		just type the following at the command prompt:</p>

		<pre>
		hg
		</pre>

		<p>This command should print a useful help message. If it does,
		other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.</p>

Lee Cantey Add section for configuration notes with initial note about the default editor	r2307	<h1>Configuration notes</h1>
Lee Cantey Add notes about configuring a merge program	r4386	<h4>Default editor</h4>
		The default editor for commit messages is 'notepad'. You can set the EDITOR
Lee Cantey Update configuration note with mercurial.ini change from Thomas	r2321	(or HGEDITOR) environment variable to specify your preference or set it in
Lee Cantey Add notes about configuring a merge program	r4386	mercurial.ini:
Lee Cantey Update configuration note with mercurial.ini change from Thomas	r2321	<pre>
		[ui]
		editor = whatever
		</pre>

Lee Cantey Add notes about configuring a merge program	r4386	<h4>Configuring a Merge program</h4>
		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.

		By default, Mercurial will use the merge program defined by the HGMERGE environment
		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)
Lee Cantey Add section for configuration notes with initial note about the default editor	r2307
Bryan O'Sullivan Turn the win32 README into a HTML file for now.	r1288	<h1>Reporting problems</h1>

		<p>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").

		<p>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>.
		<b>Remember</b>, the more useful information you include in your
		report, the easier it will be for us to help you!</p>

		<p>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>.</p>

		<h1>Author and copyright information</h1>

		<p>Mercurial was written by <a href="http://www.selenic.com">Matt
		Mackall</a>, and is maintained by Matt and a team of
		volunteers.</p>

		<p>The Windows installer was written by <a
		href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog">Bryan
		O'Sullivan</a>.</p>

Thomas Arendsen Hein Updated copyright notices and add "and others" to "hg version"	r4635	<p>Mercurial is Copyright 2005-2007 Matt Mackall and others.
		See the <tt>Contributors.txt</tt> file for a list of contributors.</p>
Bryan O'Sullivan Turn the win32 README into a HTML file for now.	r1288
		<p>Mercurial is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
		modify it under the terms of the <a
		href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public
		License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
		version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
		version.</p>

		<p>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.</p>
		</body>
		</html>