Chris@495: {Opening and initialising things}
Chris@495: 
Chris@495: I have a folder of source code or documents on my computer and I want to use version control to manage it
Chris@495: 
Chris@495: To start using version control for a project folder, you need to
Chris@495: initialise a repository there.  
Chris@495: 
Chris@495: *1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open*
Chris@495: 
Chris@495: #openfolder50
Chris@495: 
Chris@495: *2. Select "File folder" as the thing you want to open*
Chris@495: 
Chris@495: *3. Browse to your folder*
Chris@495: 
Chris@495: *4. Click OK*
Chris@495: 
Chris@495: A new repository will be created, stowed into the working folder you
Chris@495: selected.  At first, it will have an empty history.  You can then
Chris@495: start to add and commit changes to your files.
Chris@495: 
Chris@495: (You will need to "add" files before you can start to track changes to
Chris@495: them.  The default is for all files in the folder to be treated as
Chris@495: "untracked", i.e. not included in the history.)
Chris@495: 
Chris@495:  * Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is *hg init*