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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help.css"/> <h2>I've added a new file: what do I do with it?</h2> <p>When you add a new file in the working folder, you normally want to ensure that Mercurial keeps track of changes to that file – and that the file is included in all copies of the repository. To do this, you need to tell Mercurial to <i>track</i> the file by adding it to version control.</p> <p>EasyMercurial shows files that have been created but not added in the <b>“Untracked”</b> file list under “My work”. (If your file is not listed there, try clicking the Refresh button.)</p> <p><b>1. Find the file you want to add in the Untracked list and select it</b></p> <p><b>2. Click Add in the toolbar on the left of the window</b></p> <p>The file will be moved to the <b>“Added”</b> list. This tells Mercurial to track the file. The next time you commit, the contents of your new file will be recorded as part of that change set. <ul><li>Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is <b>hg add</b></li></ul></p> <p>Of course, you don't always want to track every file in your working copy. Object files generated by a compiler, output files from tests, etc should often not be included in version control. You can ensure that such files don't show up in the Untracked list by right-clicking on them and choosing <b>“Ignore..."</b>.</p>