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<h1>Mercurial version 0.7 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>For documentation, please visit the <a
href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web
site</a>.</p>
<p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>. The
Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>. To run this
command, the install directory must be in your search path.</p>
<h2>Setting your search path temporarily</h2>
<p>To set your search path temporarily, type the following into a
command prompt window:</p>
<pre>
set PATH=C:\Mercurial;%PATH%
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<h2>Setting your search path permanently</h2>
<p>To set your search path permanently, perform the following
steps. These instructions are for Windows NT, 2000 and XP.</p>
<ol>
<li>Open the Control Panel. Under Windows XP, select the
"Classic View".</li>
<li>Double-click on the "System" control panel.</li>
<li>Click on the "Advanced" tab.</li>
<li>Click on "Environment Variables". You'll find this near the
bottom of the window.</li>
<li>Under "System variables", you will see "Path". Double-click
it.</li>
<li>Edit "Variable value". Each path element is separated by a
semicolon (";") character. Append a semicolon to the end of the
list, followed by the path where you installed Mercurial
(e.g. <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>).</li>
<li>Click on the various "OK" buttons until you've completely
exited from the System control panel.</li>
<li>Log out and log back in, or restart your system.</li>
<li>The next time you run the Windows command prompt, you will be
able to run the <tt>hg</tt> command without any special
help.</li>
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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:</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>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>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 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/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public
License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) 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>
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