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    <h1>Mercurial version 0.9.1 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><div 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></div>

    <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>.</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
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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>
    <p>The default editor for commit messages is 'vi'. You can set the EDITOR
    (or HGEDITOR) environment variable to specify your preference or set it in
    mercurial.ini:</p>
    <pre>
[ui]
editor = whatever
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    <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, 2006 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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author	Brendan Cully <brendan@kublai.com>
date	Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:03:45 -0700
parents	259acfb963d1
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