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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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7 <p>To start using version control for a project folder, you need to
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8 initialise a repository there. EasyMercurial does this for you when
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9 you open the folder.</p>
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11 <p><b>1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open</b></p>
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13 <p><center><img src="images/openfolder50.png"></center></p>
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15 <p><b>2. Select “File folder” as the thing you want to open</b></p>
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17 <p><b>3. Browse to your folder</b></p>
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19 <p><b>4. Click OK</b></p>
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21 <p>A new repository will be created, stowed into the working folder you
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22 selected. At first, it will have an empty history. You can then
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23 start to add and commit changes to your files.</p>
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25 <p>(You will need to “add” files before you can start to track changes to
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26 them. The default is for all files in the folder to be treated as
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27 “untracked”, i.e. not included in the history.)
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28 <ul><li>Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is <b>hg init</b></li></ul>
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