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Update Windows release notes.
author Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
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1 Welcome to Mercurial for Windows!
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4 For configuration and usage directions, please read the ReadMe.html
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5 file that comes with this package.
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8 Release Notes
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9 -------------
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11 2005-09-21 v0.7 with modifications
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13 * New INI files have been added to control Mercurial's behaviour:
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15 System-wide - C:\Mercurial\Mercurial.ini
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16 Per-user - C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Mercurial.ini
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18 A default version of the system-wide INI file is installed with
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19 Mercurial. No per-user INI file is installed, but it will be
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20 honoured if you create one.
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22 * Windows line endings are now handled automatically and correctly by
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23 the update and commit commands. See the INI file for how to
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24 customise this behaviour.
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26 * NOTE: Much of the rest of the Mercurial code does not handle Windows
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27 line endings properly. Accordingly, the output of the diff command,
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28 for example, will appear huge until I fix this.
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30 * Packaged text files now have correct Windows line endings.
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33 2005-09-21 v0.7 with modifications
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35 * This is the first standalone release of Mercurial for Windows.
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37 * I believe it to be mostly functional, with one exception: there is
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38 no support yet for DOS <-> Unix line ending conversion.