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| author | Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> |
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| date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:02:53 -0700 |
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| 1 Mercurial version 0.7 for Windows | |
| 2 --------------------------------- | |
| 3 | |
| 4 Welcome to Mercurial for Windows! | |
| 5 | |
| 6 Mercurial is a command-line application. You must run it from the | |
| 7 Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a MinGW shell). | |
| 8 | |
| 9 By default, Mercurial installs to C:\Mercurial. The Mercurial command | |
| 10 is called hg.exe. To run this command, the install directory must be | |
| 11 in your search path. | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | |
| 14 Setting your search path temporarily | |
| 15 ------------------------------------ | |
| 16 | |
| 17 To set your search path temporarily, type the following into a command | |
| 18 prompt window: | |
| 19 | |
| 20 set PATH=C:\Mercurial;%PATH% | |
| 21 | |
| 22 | |
| 23 Setting your search path permanently | |
| 24 ------------------------------------ | |
| 25 | |
| 26 To set your search path permanently, perform the following steps. | |
| 27 These instructions are for Windows NT, 2000 and XP. | |
| 28 | |
| 29 1. Open the Control Panel. Under Windows XP, select the "Classic | |
| 30 View". | |
| 31 | |
| 32 2. Enter the "System" control panel. | |
| 33 | |
| 34 3. Click on "Advanced". | |
| 35 | |
| 36 4. Click on "Environment Variables". | |
| 37 | |
| 38 5. Under "System variables", you will see "Path". Double-click it. | |
| 39 | |
| 40 6. Edit "Variable value". Each path element is separated by a | |
| 41 semicolon (";") character. Append a semicolon to the end of the | |
| 42 list, followed by the path where you installed Mercurial | |
| 43 (e.g. C:\Mercurial). | |
| 44 | |
| 45 7. Click on the various "OK" buttons until you're back up to the top | |
| 46 level. | |
| 47 | |
| 48 8. Log out and log back in, or restart your system. | |
| 49 | |
| 50 9. The next time you run the Windows command prompt, you will be able | |
| 51 to run hg.exe. | |
| 52 | |
| 53 | |
| 54 Testing Mercurial | |
| 55 ----------------- | |
| 56 | |
| 57 The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is to | |
| 58 just type the following at the command prompt: | |
| 59 | |
| 60 hg | |
| 61 | |
| 62 It should print a help message. If it does, it should work fine for | |
| 63 you. | |
| 64 | |
| 65 | |
| 66 Reporting problems | |
| 67 ------------------ | |
| 68 | |
| 69 Before you report any problems, please consult the Mercurial web site | |
| 70 at http://www.selenic.com/mercurial and see if your question is | |
| 71 already in our list of Frequently Answered Questions (the "FAQ"). | |
| 72 | |
| 73 If you cannot find an answer to your question, please feel free to | |
| 74 send mail to the Mercurial mailing list, at <mercurial@selenic.com>. | |
| 75 Remember, the more useful information you include in your report, the | |
| 76 easier it will be for us to help you! | |
| 77 | |
| 78 If you are IRC-savvy, that's usually the fastest way to get help. Go | |
| 79 to #mercurial on irc.freenode.net. | |
| 80 | |
| 81 | |
| 82 Author and copyright information | |
| 83 -------------------------------- | |
| 84 | |
| 85 Mercurial was written by Matt Mackall, and is maintained by Matt and a | |
| 86 team of volunteers. | |
| 87 | |
| 88 The Windows installer was written by Bryan O'Sullivan. | |
| 89 | |
| 90 Copyright 2005 Matt Mackall and others. See the CONTRIBUTORS.txt file | |
| 91 for a list of contributors. | |
| 92 | |
| 93 Mercurial is free software, released under the terms of the GNU | |
| 94 General Public License, version 2. |