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* Added shortcut for diff against parent
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1 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help.css"/>
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4 <h2>I have a folder of source code or documents on my computer and I want to use version control to manage them</h2>
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6 <p>To start using version control for a project folder, you need to
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7 initialise a repository there. EasyMercurial does this for you when
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8 you open the folder.</p>
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10 <p><b>1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open</b></p>
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12 <p><center><img src="images/openfolder50.png"></center></p>
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14 <p><b>2. Select “File folder” as the thing you want to open</b></p>
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16 <p><b>3. Browse to your folder</b></p>
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18 <p><b>4. Click OK</b></p>
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20 <p>A new repository will be created, stowed into the working folder you
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21 selected. At first, it will have an empty history. You can then
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22 start to add and commit changes to your files.</p>
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24 <p>(You will need to “add” files before you can start to track changes to
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25 them. The default is for all files in the folder to be treated as
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26 “untracked”, i.e. not included in the history.)
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27 <ul><li>Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is <b>hg init</b></li></ul>
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