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Add back/forward/home to Help window, and some Help edits
author Chris Cannam
date Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:46:06 +0100
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1 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help.css"/> 1 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help.css"/>
2 <p><a href="topics.html">Back to Topics</a></p><hr>
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5 <h2>I have a Mercurial repository on my local computer and I want to use it with EasyMercurial</h2> 4 <h2>I want to start a completely new project using version control</h2>
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7 <p>Just open it:</p> 6 <p>To start using version control for an initially empty project, just
7 initialise a repository in an empty folder:</p>
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9 <p><b>1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open</b></p> 9 <p><b>1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open</b></p>
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11 <p><center><img src="images/openlocal50.png"></center></p> 11 <p><center><img src="images/openfolder50.png"></center></p>
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13 <p><b>2. Select &ldquo;Local repository&rdquo; as the thing you want to open</b></p> 13 <p><b>2. Select &ldquo;File folder&rdquo; as the thing you want to open</b></p>
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15 <p><b>3. Browse to the working folder for your local repository</b></p> 15 <p><b>3. Make a new folder in the file dialog and browse to it</b></p>
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17 <p><b>4. Click OK</b></p> 17 <p><b>4. Click OK</b></p>
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19 <hr><p><a href="topics.html">Back to Topics</a></p> 19 <p>A new repository will be created, stowed into the empty working folder
20 you selected. At first, it will have an empty history. You can then
21 start to add and commit changes to your files.
22 <ul><li>Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is <b>hg init</b></li></ul>