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| author | Vadim Gelfer <vadim.gelfer@gmail.com> |
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| date | Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:47:34 -0700 |
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| 30 <p>For documentation, please visit the <a | 30 <p>For documentation, please visit the <a |
| 31 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.</p> | 31 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a>.</p> |
| 32 | 32 |
| 33 <p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>. The | 33 <p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>. The |
| 34 Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>. To run this | 34 Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>.</p> |
| 35 command, the install directory must be in your search path.</p> | |
| 36 | |
| 37 <h2>Setting your search path temporarily</h2> | |
| 38 | |
| 39 <p>To set your search path temporarily, type the following into a | |
| 40 command prompt window:</p> | |
| 41 | |
| 42 <pre> | |
| 43 set PATH=C:\Mercurial;%PATH% | |
| 44 </pre> | |
| 45 | |
| 46 <h2>Setting your search path permanently</h2> | |
| 47 | |
| 48 <p>To set your search path permanently, perform the following | |
| 49 steps. These instructions are for Windows NT, 2000 and XP.</p> | |
| 50 | |
| 51 <ol> | |
| 52 <li>Open the Control Panel. Under Windows XP, select the | |
| 53 "Classic View".</li> | |
| 54 | |
| 55 <li>Double-click on the "System" control panel.</li> | |
| 56 | |
| 57 <li>Click on the "Advanced" tab.</li> | |
| 58 | |
| 59 <li>Click on "Environment Variables". You'll find this near the | |
| 60 bottom of the window.</li> | |
| 61 | |
| 62 <li>Under "System variables", you will see "Path". Double-click | |
| 63 it.</li> | |
| 64 | |
| 65 <li>Edit "Variable value". Each path element is separated by a | |
| 66 semicolon (";") character. Append a semicolon to the end of the | |
| 67 list, followed by the path where you installed Mercurial | |
| 68 (e.g. <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>).</li> | |
| 69 | |
| 70 <li>Click on the various "OK" buttons until you've completely | |
| 71 exited from the System control panel.</li> | |
| 72 | |
| 73 <li>Log out and log back in, or restart your system.</li> | |
| 74 | |
| 75 <li>The next time you run the Windows command prompt, you will be | |
| 76 able to run the <tt>hg</tt> command without any special | |
| 77 help.</li> | |
| 78 </ol> | |
| 79 | 35 |
| 80 <h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1> | 36 <h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1> |
| 81 | 37 |
| 82 <p>The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is to | 38 <p>The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is to |
| 83 just type the following at the command prompt:</p> | 39 just type the following at the command prompt:</p> |