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33 <h1>Mercurial for Windows</h1>
35 <p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p>
38 Mercurial is a command-line application. You must run it from
39 the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a
40 href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).
44 <i>Note: the standard <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a>
45 msys startup script uses rxvt which has problems setting up
46 standard input and output. Running bash directly works
51 For documentation, please visit the <a
52 href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/">Mercurial web site</a>.
53 You can also download a free book, <a
54 href="http://hgbook.red-bean.com/">Mercurial: The Definitive
59 By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Program
60 Files\Mercurial</tt>. The Mercurial command is called
64 <h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1>
67 The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is
68 to just type the following at the command prompt:
76 This command should print a useful help message. If it does,
77 other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.
80 <h1>Configuration notes</h1>
81 <h4>Default editor</h4>
83 The default editor for commit messages is 'notepad'. You can set
84 the <tt>EDITOR</tt> (or <tt>HGEDITOR</tt>) environment variable
85 to specify your preference or set it in <tt>mercurial.ini</tt>:
92 <h4>Configuring a Merge program</h4>
94 It should be emphasized that Mercurial by itself doesn't attempt
95 to do a Merge at the file level, neither does it make any
96 attempt to Resolve the conflicts.
100 By default, Mercurial will use the merge program defined by the
101 <tt>HGMERGE</tt> environment variable, or uses the one defined
102 in the <tt>mercurial.ini</tt> file. (see <a
103 href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MergeProgram">MergeProgram</a>
104 on the Mercurial Wiki for more information)
107 <h1>Reporting problems</h1>
110 Before you report any problems, please consult the <a
111 href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/">Mercurial web site</a>
112 and see if your question is already in our list of <a
113 href="http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FAQ">Frequently
114 Answered Questions</a> (the "FAQ").
118 If you cannot find an answer to your question, please feel free
119 to send mail to the Mercurial mailing list, at <a
120 href="mailto:mercurial@selenic.com">mercurial@selenic.com</a>.
121 <b>Remember</b>, the more useful information you include in your
122 report, the easier it will be for us to help you!
126 If you are IRC-savvy, that's usually the fastest way to get
127 help. Go to <tt>#mercurial</tt> on <tt>irc.freenode.net</tt>.
130 <h1>Author and copyright information</h1>
133 Mercurial was written by <a href="http://www.selenic.com">Matt
134 Mackall</a>, and is maintained by Matt and a team of volunteers.
138 The Windows installer was written by <a
139 href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog">Bryan O'Sullivan</a>.
143 Mercurial is Copyright 2005-2009 Matt Mackall and others. See
144 the <tt>Contributors.txt</tt> file for a list of contributors.
148 Mercurial is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
149 modify it under the terms of the <a
150 href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt">GNU
151 General Public License version 2</a> as published by the Free
156 Mercurial is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
157 <b>without any warranty</b>; without even the implied warranty
158 of <b>merchantability</b> or <b>fitness for a particular
159 purpose</b>. See the GNU General Public License for more