Chris@495: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help.css"/> Chris@495: Chris@495: Chris@499: <h2>I have a folder of source code or documents on my computer and I want to use version control to manage them</h2> Chris@495: Chris@495: <p>To start using version control for a project folder, you need to Chris@496: initialise a repository there. EasyMercurial does this for you when Chris@496: you open the folder.</p> Chris@495: Chris@495: <p><b>1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open</b></p> Chris@495: Chris@495: <p><center><img src="images/openfolder50.png"></center></p> Chris@495: Chris@495: <p><b>2. Select “File folder” as the thing you want to open</b></p> Chris@495: Chris@496: <p><b>3. Browse to your folder</b></p> Chris@495: Chris@496: <p><b>4. Click OK</b></p> Chris@495: Chris@495: <p>A new repository will be created, stowed into the working folder you Chris@496: selected. At first, it will have an empty history. You can then Chris@496: start to add and commit changes to your files.</p> Chris@496: Chris@496: <p>(You will need to “add” files before you can start to track changes to Chris@496: them. The default is for all files in the folder to be treated as Chris@496: “untracked”, i.e. not included in the history.) Chris@495: <ul><li>Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is <b>hg init</b></li></ul>