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