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<h1>Mercurial for Windows</h1>
<p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p>
<p>Mercurial is a command-line application. You must run it from
the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a
href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).</p>
<p class="indented"><i>Note: the standard <a
href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> msys startup script uses
rxvt which has problems setting up standard input and output.
Running bash directly works correctly.</i></p>
<p>For documentation, please visit the <a
href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.
You can also download a free book, <a
href="http://hgbook.red-bean.com/">Distributed revision control
with Mercurial</a>.</p>
<p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Program Files\Mercurial</tt>. The
Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>.</p>
<h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1>
<p>The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is to
just type the following at the command prompt:</p>
<pre>
hg
</pre>
<p>This command should print a useful help message. If it does,
other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.</p>
<h1>Configuration notes</h1>
<h4>Default editor</h4>
<p>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:</p>
<pre>
[ui]
editor = whatever
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<h4>Configuring a Merge program</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MergeProgram">MergeProgram</a> on the Mercurial Wiki for more information)</p>
<h1>Reporting problems</h1>
<p>Before you report any problems, please consult the <a
href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a> and
see if your question is already in our list of <a
href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/FAQ">Frequently
Answered Questions</a> (the "FAQ").</p>
<p>If you cannot find an answer to your question, please feel
free to send mail to the Mercurial mailing list, at <a
href="mailto:mercurial@selenic.com">mercurial@selenic.com</a>.
<b>Remember</b>, the more useful information you include in your
report, the easier it will be for us to help you!</p>
<p>If you are IRC-savvy, that's usually the fastest way to get
help. Go to <tt>#mercurial</tt> on
<tt>irc.freenode.net</tt>.</p>
<h1>Author and copyright information</h1>
<p>Mercurial was written by <a href="http://www.selenic.com">Matt
Mackall</a>, and is maintained by Matt and a team of
volunteers.</p>
<p>The Windows installer was written by <a
href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog">Bryan
O'Sullivan</a>.</p>
<p>Mercurial is Copyright 2005-2009 Matt Mackall and others.
See the <tt>Contributors.txt</tt> file for a list of contributors.</p>
<p>Mercurial is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt">GNU
General Public License version 2</a> as published by the Free
Software Foundation.</p>
<p>Mercurial is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but <b>without any warranty</b>; without even the implied
warranty of <b>merchantability</b> or <b>fitness for a
particular purpose</b>. See the GNU General Public License for
more details.</p>
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