Mercurial version 0.9 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).

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. To run this
command, the install directory must be in your search path.

Setting your search path temporarily

To set your search path temporarily, type the following into a
command prompt window:

set PATH=C:\Mercurial;%PATH%

Setting your search path permanently

To set your search path permanently, perform the following
steps. These instructions are for Windows NT, 2000 and XP.

1. Open the Control Panel. Under Windows XP, select the
   "Classic View".



2. Double-click on the "System" control panel.



3. Click on the "Advanced" tab.



4. Click on "Environment Variables". You'll find this near the
   bottom of the window.



5. Under "System variables", you will see "Path". Double-click
   it.



6. Edit "Variable value". Each path element is separated by a
   semicolon (";") character. Append a semicolon to the end of the
   list, followed by the path where you installed Mercurial
   (e.g. C:\Mercurial).



7. Click on the various "OK" buttons until you've completely
   exited from the System control panel.



8. Log out and log back in, or restart your system.



9. The next time you run the Windows command prompt, you will be
   able to run the hg command without any special
   help.

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

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

[ui]
editor = whatever

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.