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-<h2>How do I use the Merge window?</h2>
+<h2>Every time I push some changes, I have to type my password again</h2>
 
-<p>If you are working with other people on a project, it is likely that
-at some point you'll find that more than one of you have edited the
-same lines in the same file, in different ways.</p>
+<p>When you push to a remote repository with an &ldquo;https:" prefix on its
+URL, EasyMercurial's password dialog should ask whether you want to
+remember your login details.</p>
 
-<p>When that happens and you try to merge the two versions, EasyMercurial
-will pop up a merge window that looks a bit like this.</p>
+<p>If you say yes, the details will be stored until EasyMercurial
+exits&mdash;so you won't have to enter them if you push or pull again
+while the present EasyMercurial session is running. Your password will
+be stored, encrypted with a session key, in a file which is deleted
+when EasyMercurial exits.</p>
 
-<p><center><img src="images/merge50.png"></center></p>
+<p><b>If this option does not appear</b></p>
 
-<p>(This is actually a separate program, not part of EasyMercurial: it's
-a merge tool called kdiff3.)</p>
+<p>... and if you're using OS/X, then you need to install the PyCrypto
+library before EasyMercurial will be able to store encrypted passwords
+for you.</p>
 
-<p>This looks a bit complicated, but it is there to help you pick which
-of the changes from each of the two &ldquo;rival&rdquo; versions of the file you
-want to use in your merged version.</p>
+<p>Try running <code>sudo easy_install pycrypto</code> in a terminal window.</p>
 
-<p> <b>The top middle one is <i>your current version</i>.</b> That's
-  the one you had before you decided to merge the other version into
-  it.</p>
+<p><b>Not using an https repository?</b></p>
 
-<p> <b>At top right is <i>the version you're merging</i>.</b> That's the other
-  rival version &ndash; the one that the other person can see in their copy
-  of the repository.</p>
+<p>If your remote repository uses ssh or some other protocol, then
+EasyMercurial won't be able to help. You might consider using ssh
+public key authentication and an ssh agent&mdash;talk to the admin of your
+remote repository for more details.</p>
 
-<p> <b>At top left is <i>the common ancestor</i>.</b> That's the version that both
-  of you had, before you started editing it in different ways.</p>
-
-<p> <b>At the bottom is the output.</b></p>
-
-<p>Each <i>conflict</i> (a line which you have both changed in different ways)
-is shown with <b>Merge Conflict</b> in the output at the bottom.  To sort
-out the conflicts and get the right output, you need to go through
-them one by one, for each one pressing the A, B, or C button to say
-whether for this line you want the top-left, top-middle, or top-right
-version to &ldquo;win&rdquo;.  (You can choose more than one, if you want both
-versions of a line to appear.)</p>
-
-<p>Then having resolved a conflict, press the three-arrows-down toolbar
-button to go to the next one &ndash; and when you've done them all, save
-and exit.</p>
-
-<p>The most important thing to remember is that <i>whatever appears in the
-bottom pane is what you'll get as a result</i>.</p>
-
-<p>No matter how confusing the process, just remember that if it looks
-correct in the bottom pane, it will be correct when you save and
-exit. You can even edit the file directly in the bottom pane if you
-aren't happy with the way the merge is going.</p>
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