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<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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the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a
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href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).
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<i>Note: the standard <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a>
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msys startup script uses rxvt which has problems setting up
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standard input and output. Running bash directly works
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correctly.</i>
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For documentation, please visit the <a
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href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/">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/">Mercurial: The Definitive
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Guide</a>.
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By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Program
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Files\Mercurial</tt>. The Mercurial command is called
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<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
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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,
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other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.
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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
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the <tt>EDITOR</tt> (or <tt>HGEDITOR</tt>) environment variable
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to specify your preference or set it in <tt>mercurial.ini</tt>:
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[ui]
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editor = whatever
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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
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to do a Merge at the file level, neither does it make any
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attempt to Resolve the conflicts.
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By default, Mercurial will use the merge program defined by the
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<tt>HGMERGE</tt> environment variable, or uses the one defined
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in the <tt>mercurial.ini</tt> file. (see <a
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href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MergeProgram">MergeProgram</a>
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on the Mercurial Wiki for more information)
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<h1>Reporting problems</h1>
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Before you report any problems, please consult the <a
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href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/">Mercurial web site</a>
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and see if your question is already in our list of <a
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href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FAQ">Frequently
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Answered Questions</a> (the "FAQ").
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If you cannot find an answer to your question, please feel free
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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!
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If you are IRC-savvy, that's usually the fastest way to get
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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
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Mackall</a>, and is maintained by Matt and a team of volunteers.
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The Windows installer was written by <a
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href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog">Bryan O'Sullivan</a>.
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Mercurial is Copyright 2005-2010 Matt Mackall and others. See
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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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modify it under the terms of the <a
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href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt">GNU
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General Public License version 2</a> or any later version.
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Mercurial is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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<b>without any warranty</b>; without even the implied warranty
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of <b>merchantability</b> or <b>fitness for a particular
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purpose</b>. See the GNU General Public License for more
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details.
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