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| author | Arne Babenhauserheide <bab@draketo.de> |
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| date | Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:24:04 +0200 |
| parents | 5bc5fe45852a |
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--- a/text/quick_start.txt Thu Jun 25 00:23:46 2009 +0200 +++ b/text/quick_start.txt Thu Jun 25 00:24:04 2009 +0200 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ = Quick Start = -*This site should get you going at once.* +*This site should get you going at once. You can find a slightly longer quick_start [in the wiki](http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/QuickStart)* == Part 0: Instant usage == @@ -49,9 +49,16 @@ (you can also do a lot of finegrained stuff by using different command options. Just call "hg help <command>" to see them). +One step you'll likely want to do is setting your username in your Mercurial config file. + +For this you can configure a proper name and email address in ~/.hgrc (or on a Windows system in %USERPROFILE%\Mercurial.ini) by adding lines such as the following: + + [ui] + username = John Doe <john@example.com> + I you want more than this quick overview, please have a look at our longer [practical guide]({% url workflow_guide %}). -== Part 2: Understanding Mercurial from Subversion == +== Part 2: Understanding Mercurial == Now we'll look at some of the basic concepts of Mercurial to get a better understanding of its internals: