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<h1>Mercurial for Windows</h1>
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<p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p>
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<p>Mercurial is a command-line application. You must run it from
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the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a
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href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).</p>
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<p><div class="indented"><i>Note: the standard <a
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href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> msys startup script uses
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rxvt which has problems setting up standard input and output.
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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>.
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You can also download a free book, <a
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href="http://hgbook.red-bean.com/">Distributed revision control
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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>
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<p>The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is to
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just type the following at the command prompt:</p>
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hg
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<p>This command should print a useful help message. If it does,
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other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.</p>
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<h1>Configuration notes</h1>
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<h4>Default editor</h4>
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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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[ui]
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editor = whatever
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</pre>
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<h4>Configuring a Merge program</h4>
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It should be emphasized that Mercurial by itself doesn't attempt to do a
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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 HGMERGE environment
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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>
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<p>Before you report any problems, please consult the <a
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href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a> and
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see if your question is already in our list of <a
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href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/FAQ">Frequently
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Answered Questions</a> (the "FAQ").
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<p>If you cannot find an answer to your question, please feel
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free to send mail to the Mercurial mailing list, at <a
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href="mailto:mercurial@selenic.com">mercurial@selenic.com</a>.
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<b>Remember</b>, the more useful information you include in your
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report, the easier it will be for us to help you!</p>
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<p>If you are IRC-savvy, that's usually the fastest way to get
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help. Go to <tt>#mercurial</tt> on
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<tt>irc.freenode.net</tt>.</p>
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<h1>Author and copyright information</h1>
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<p>Mercurial was written by <a href="http://www.selenic.com">Matt
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Mackall</a>, and is maintained by Matt and a team of
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volunteers.</p>
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<p>The Windows installer was written by <a
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href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog">Bryan
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O'Sullivan</a>.</p>
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<p>Mercurial is Copyright 2005-2007 Matt Mackall and others.
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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
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modify it under the terms of the <a
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href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public
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License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
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version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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version.</p>
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<p>Mercurial is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but <b>without any warranty</b>; without even the implied
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warranty of <b>merchantability</b> or <b>fitness for a
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particular purpose</b>. See the GNU General Public License for
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more details.</p>
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