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installer: add windows application version number to inno installer script
This addition to the inno installer script means that the windows uninstaller
registry key “DisplayVersion" is set to the application version number and
will show in Add/Remove Programs.
author | Urs Rau <urs.rau@gmail.com> |
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date | Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:49:26 +0000 |
parents | 4b0fc75f9403 |
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Mercurial for Windows</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" > <style type="text/css"> <!-- html { font-family: sans-serif; margin: 1em 2em; } p { margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; } pre { margin: 0.25em 0em; padding: 0.5em; background-color: #EEE; border: thin solid #CCC; } .indented { padding-left: 10pt; } --> </style> </head> <body> <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="https://mercurial-scm.org/">Mercurial web site</a>. You can also download a free book, <a href="http://hgbook.red-bean.com/">Mercurial: The Definitive Guide</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 <tt>EDITOR</tt> (or <tt>HGEDITOR</tt>) environment variable to specify your preference or set it in <tt>mercurial.ini</tt>: </p> <pre> [ui] editor = whatever </pre> <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 <tt>HGMERGE</tt> environment variable, or uses the one defined in the <tt>mercurial.ini</tt> file. (see <a href="https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/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="https://mercurial-scm.org/">Mercurial web site</a> and see if your question is already in our list of <a href="https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/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 2005-2015 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> or any later version. </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> </body> </html>