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A bit more Help
| author | Chris Cannam |
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| date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:13:04 +0100 |
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| Chris@495 | 1 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help.css"/> |
| Chris@495 | 2 <p><a href="topics.html">Back to Topics</a></p><hr> |
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| Chris@495 | 5 <h2>I have a folder of source code or documents on my computer and I want to use version control to manage it</h2> |
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| Chris@495 | 7 <p>To start using version control for a project folder, you need to |
| Chris@495 | 8 initialise a repository there. </p> |
| Chris@495 | 9 |
| Chris@495 | 10 <p><b>1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open</b></p> |
| Chris@495 | 11 |
| Chris@495 | 12 <p><center><img src="images/openfolder50.png"></center></p> |
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| Chris@495 | 14 <p><b>2. Select “File folder” as the thing you want to open</b></p> |
| Chris@495 | 15 |
| Chris@495 | 16 <p><b>3. Browse to your folder</p> |
| Chris@495 | 17 |
| Chris@495 | 18 <p></b>4. Click OK*</p> |
| Chris@495 | 19 |
| Chris@495 | 20 <p>A new repository will be created, stowed into the working folder you |
| Chris@495 | 21 selected. It will have an empty history, until you add and commit |
| Chris@495 | 22 some files. |
| Chris@495 | 23 <ul><li>Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is <b>hg init</b></li></ul> |
| Chris@495 | 24 <hr><p><a href="topics.html">Back to Topics</a></p> |