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Add back/forward/home to Help window, and some Help edits
author | Chris Cannam |
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date | Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:46:06 +0100 |
parents | fb95d70c80d5 |
children | b3309be1640f |
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Chris@496 | 1 {Opening and initialising things} |
Chris@496 | 2 |
Chris@498 | 3 I want to start a completely new project using version control |
Chris@496 | 4 |
Chris@498 | 5 To start using version control for an initially empty project, just |
Chris@498 | 6 initialise a repository in an empty folder: |
Chris@496 | 7 |
Chris@496 | 8 *1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open* |
Chris@496 | 9 |
Chris@498 | 10 #openfolder50 |
Chris@496 | 11 |
Chris@498 | 12 *2. Select "File folder" as the thing you want to open* |
Chris@496 | 13 |
Chris@498 | 14 *3. Make a new folder in the file dialog and browse to it* |
Chris@496 | 15 |
Chris@496 | 16 *4. Click OK* |
Chris@496 | 17 |
Chris@498 | 18 A new repository will be created, stowed into the empty working folder |
Chris@498 | 19 you selected. At first, it will have an empty history. You can then |
Chris@498 | 20 start to add and commit changes to your files. |
Chris@498 | 21 |
Chris@498 | 22 * Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is *hg init* |