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19 <p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p> |
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23 href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).</p> |
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25 <p><div class="indented"><i>Note: the standard <a |
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31 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.</p> |
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70 report, the easier it will be for us to help you!</p> |
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