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| author | Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> |
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| 1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> | |
| 2 <html> | |
| 3 <head> | |
| 4 <title>Mercurial for Windows</title> | |
| 5 </head> | |
| 6 | |
| 7 <body> | |
| 8 <h1>Mercurial version 0.7 for Windows</h1> | |
| 9 | |
| 10 <p>Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!</p> | |
| 11 | |
| 12 <p>Mercurial is a command-line application. You must run it from | |
| 13 the Windows command prompt (or if you're hard core, a <a | |
| 14 href="http://www.mingw.org/">MinGW</a> shell).</p> | |
| 15 | |
| 16 <p>For documentation, please visit the <a | |
| 17 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web | |
| 18 site</a>.</p> | |
| 19 | |
| 20 <p>By default, Mercurial installs to <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>. The | |
| 21 Mercurial command is called <tt>hg.exe</tt>. To run this | |
| 22 command, the install directory must be in your search path.</p> | |
| 23 | |
| 24 <h2>Setting your search path temporarily</h2> | |
| 25 | |
| 26 <p>To set your search path temporarily, type the following into a | |
| 27 command prompt window:</p> | |
| 28 | |
| 29 <pre> | |
| 30 set PATH=C:\Mercurial;%PATH% | |
| 31 </pre> | |
| 32 | |
| 33 <h2>Setting your search path permanently</h2> | |
| 34 | |
| 35 <p>To set your search path permanently, perform the following | |
| 36 steps. These instructions are for Windows NT, 2000 and XP.</p> | |
| 37 | |
| 38 <ol> | |
| 39 <li>Open the Control Panel. Under Windows XP, select the | |
| 40 "Classic View".</li> | |
| 41 | |
| 42 <li>Double-click on the "System" control panel.</li> | |
| 43 | |
| 44 <li>Click on the "Advanced" tab.</li> | |
| 45 | |
| 46 <li>Click on "Environment Variables". You'll find this near the | |
| 47 bottom of the window.</li> | |
| 48 | |
| 49 <li>Under "System variables", you will see "Path". Double-click | |
| 50 it.</li> | |
| 51 | |
| 52 <li>Edit "Variable value". Each path element is separated by a | |
| 53 semicolon (";") character. Append a semicolon to the end of the | |
| 54 list, followed by the path where you installed Mercurial | |
| 55 (e.g. <tt>C:\Mercurial</tt>).</li> | |
| 56 | |
| 57 <li>Click on the various "OK" buttons until you've completely | |
| 58 exited from the System control panel.</li> | |
| 59 | |
| 60 <li>Log out and log back in, or restart your system.</li> | |
| 61 | |
| 62 <li>The next time you run the Windows command prompt, you will be | |
| 63 able to run the <tt>hg</tt> command without any special | |
| 64 help.</li> | |
| 65 </ol> | |
| 66 | |
| 67 <h1>Testing Mercurial after you've installed it</h1> | |
| 68 | |
| 69 <p>The easiest way to check that Mercurial is installed properly is to | |
| 70 just type the following at the command prompt:</p> | |
| 71 | |
| 72 <pre> | |
| 73 hg | |
| 74 </pre> | |
| 75 | |
| 76 <p>This command should print a useful help message. If it does, | |
| 77 other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.</p> | |
| 78 | |
| 79 <h1>Reporting problems</h1> | |
| 80 | |
| 81 <p>Before you report any problems, please consult the <a | |
| 82 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial web site</a> and | |
| 83 see if your question is already in our list of <a | |
| 84 href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/FAQ">Frequently | |
| 85 Answered Questions</a> (the "FAQ"). | |
| 86 | |
| 87 <p>If you cannot find an answer to your question, please feel | |
| 88 free to send mail to the Mercurial mailing list, at <a | |
| 89 href="mailto:mercurial@selenic.com">mercurial@selenic.com</a>. | |
| 90 <b>Remember</b>, the more useful information you include in your | |
| 91 report, the easier it will be for us to help you!</p> | |
| 92 | |
| 93 <p>If you are IRC-savvy, that's usually the fastest way to get | |
| 94 help. Go to <tt>#mercurial</tt> on | |
| 95 <tt>irc.freenode.net</tt>.</p> | |
| 96 | |
| 97 <h1>Author and copyright information</h1> | |
| 98 | |
| 99 <p>Mercurial was written by <a href="http://www.selenic.com">Matt | |
| 100 Mackall</a>, and is maintained by Matt and a team of | |
| 101 volunteers.</p> | |
| 102 | |
| 103 <p>The Windows installer was written by <a | |
| 104 href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog">Bryan | |
| 105 O'Sullivan</a>.</p> | |
| 106 | |
| 107 <p>Mercurial is Copyright 2005 Matt Mackall and others. See the | |
| 108 <tt>Contributors.txt</tt> file for a list of contributors.</p> | |
| 109 | |
| 110 <p>Mercurial is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | |
| 111 modify it under the terms of the <a | |
| 112 href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public | |
| 113 License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation; either | |
| 114 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later | |
| 115 version.</p> | |
| 116 | |
| 117 <p>Mercurial is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 118 but <b>without any warranty</b>; without even the implied | |
| 119 warranty of <b>merchantability</b> or <b>fitness for a | |
| 120 particular purpose</b>. See the GNU General Public License for | |
| 121 more details.</p> | |
| 122 </body> | |
| 123 </html> |