contrib/win32/postinstall.txt
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Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!
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For configuration and usage directions, please read the ReadMe.html
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file that comes with this package.
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Release Notes
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2005-09-21  v0.7 with modifications
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* New INI files have been added to control Mercurial's behaviour:
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    System-wide -  C:\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini
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    Per-user    -  C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Mercurial.ini
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  A default version of the system-wide INI file is installed with
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  Mercurial.  No per-user INI file is installed, but it will be
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  honoured if you create one.
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* Windows line endings are now handled automatically and correctly by
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  the update and commit commands.  See the INI file for how to
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  customise this behaviour.
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* NOTE: Much of the rest of the Mercurial code does not handle Windows
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  line endings properly.  Accordingly, the output of the diff command,
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  for example, will appear huge until I fix this.
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* Packaged text files now have correct Windows line endings.
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* This is the first standalone release of Mercurial for Windows.
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* I believe it to be mostly functional, with one exception: there is
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  no support yet for DOS <-> Unix line ending conversion.