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Mercurial for Windows



Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!



Mercurial is a command-line application. You must run it from
the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a<br /> href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW shell).



Note: the standard <a<br /> href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW msys startup script uses
rxvt which has problems setting up standard input and output.
Running bash directly works correctly.


For documentation, please visit the <a<br /> href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site.



By default, Mercurial installs to C:\Mercurial. The
Mercurial command is called hg.exe.



Testing Mercurial after you've installed it



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




hg


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



Configuration notes


Default editor


The default editor for commit messages is 'notepad'. You can set the EDITOR
(or HGEDITOR) environment variable to specify your preference or set it in
mercurial.ini:

[ui]
editor = whatever


Configuring a Merge program


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 http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MergeProgram">MergeProgram on the Mercurial Wiki for more information)

Reporting problems



Before you report any problems, please consult the <a<br /> href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site and
see if your question is already in our list of <a<br /> href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/FAQ">Frequently
Answered Questions (the "FAQ").

If you cannot find an answer to your question, please feel
free to send mail to the Mercurial mailing list, at <a<br /> href="mailto:mercurial@selenic.com">mercurial@selenic.com.
Remember, the more useful information you include in your
report, the easier it will be for us to help you!



If you are IRC-savvy, that's usually the fastest way to get
help. Go to #mercurial on
irc.freenode.net.



Author and copyright information



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



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



Mercurial is Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall and others. See the
Contributors.txt file for a list of contributors.



Mercurial is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the <a<br /> href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.



Mercurial is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but without any warranty; without even the implied
warranty of merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose
. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.


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