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rev-branch-cache: properly ignores unaligned trailing data Previously, trailing data could lead to crash and would be written back to disk, disaligning all new data… This is no longer the cases. This was detected while playing with branchmap-v3 that access the rev-branch-cache much more aggressively.
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date Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:19:10 +0200
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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).
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      <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>
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    <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="https://book.mercurial-scm.org/">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>.
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    <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:
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    <pre>
hg
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    <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
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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
      <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@mercurial-scm.org">mercurial@mercurial-scm.org</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 2005-2024 Olivia Mackall and others.
    </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.
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    <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.
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