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<p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p> |
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href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.</p> |
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<p>This command should print a useful help message. If it does, |
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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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