1. click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open
+1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open
2. select “Remote Repository” as the thing you want to open
+2. Select “Remote repository” as the thing you want to open
-3. enter the repository URL into the URL field
+3. Enter the repository URL into the URL field
-4. give the name of a folder on your local computer to clone into – +
4. Give the name of a folder on your local computer to clone into – this folder will be created for you, so it shouldn't be one that already exists
-5. click OK
+5. Click OK
If the remote repository has restricted access, you may be asked to provide a username and password to log in to the server it is hosted @@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ data to be transferred.
Provided the clone has been successful, you should now have a local -repository to work in.
- +repository to start working in. +To start using version control for a project folder, you need to +initialise a repository there.
+ +1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open
+ +
2. Select “File folder” as the thing you want to open
+ +3. Browse to your folder
+ +4. Click OK*
+ +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. +
<\/center>/gm;
s/\n-+\n/\n/gs;
s/\n\n([^\n])/\n\n$1/gs; s/^\n*([^<\n])/\n
$1/gs; @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ if [ "$category" != "$pcat" ]; then echo "
|" | sed 's/<\/h2>/<\/a><\/p>/' >> topics.html
diff -r 41a156d439d0 -r e6141a238811 help/images/openfolder.png
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diff -r 41a156d439d0 -r e6141a238811 help/images/openfolder50.png
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diff -r 41a156d439d0 -r e6141a238811 help/topics.html
--- a/help/topics.html Thu Aug 18 16:37:27 2011 +0100
+++ b/help/topics.html Thu Aug 18 17:13:04 2011 +0100
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@
Opening and initialising things
+
diff -r 41a156d439d0 -r e6141a238811 help/topics/10.txt
--- a/help/topics/10.txt Thu Aug 18 16:37:27 2011 +0100
+++ b/help/topics/10.txt Thu Aug 18 17:13:04 2011 +0100
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
*1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open*
-#openremote50.png
+#openremote50
-*2. Select "Remote Repository" as the thing you want to open*
+*2. Select "Remote repository" as the thing you want to open*
*3. Enter the repository URL into the URL field*
@@ -32,5 +32,6 @@
data to be transferred.
Provided the clone has been successful, you should now have a local
-repository to work in.
+repository to start working in.
+ * Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is *hg clone*
diff -r 41a156d439d0 -r e6141a238811 help/topics/11.txt
--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/help/topics/11.txt Thu Aug 18 17:13:04 2011 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{Opening and initialising things}
+
+I have a folder of source code or documents on my computer and I want to use version control to manage it
+
+To start using version control for a project folder, you need to
+initialise a repository there.
+
+*1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open*
+
+#openfolder50
+
+*2. Select "File folder" as the thing you want to open*
+
+*3. Browse to your folder*
+
+*4. Click OK*
+
+A new repository will be created, stowed into the working folder you
+selected. At first, it will have an empty history. You can then
+start to add and commit changes to your files.
+
+(You will need to "add" files before you can start to track changes to
+them. The default is for all files in the folder to be treated as
+"untracked", i.e. not included in the history.)
+
+ * Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is *hg init*