![]() ![]() This tutorial isn't going to cover how to actually use Mercurial (that's what the rest of this tutorial set is for) but I think now is an appropriate time to point out how you're going to get to them. It's the actual shell that you can use to browse files and displays the start menu, task bar, and system tray.) Accessing the Tools You may notice that it wants to shut down Windows Explorer. Once it's downloaded, go ahead and run the installer. I'll assume you can figure out whether you need the 32-bit or the 64-bit version on your own, but if in doubt, if you computer is new within the last few years, it's probably 64-bit. So go ahead and download the appropriate version for you computer here: (Everything should look pretty similar on Linux, but I haven't ever tried it over there, so I can be sure.) Since you're probably on this site to learn C#, learn XNA or MonoGame, or something else like that, I'll assume you're on a Windows machine for the rest of these tutorials. On Windows, the download contains everything you need to get going, including Mercurial itself. You can get TortoiseHg for Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) and Linux. (Remember from the Periodic Table) in chemistry class?) Hg is the symbol for the element Mercury. Side Note: Perhaps you're wondering what the Hg is for. So instead of working directly with Mercurial on the command line, I use a tool called TortoiseHg. I use it all the time, for all sorts of things, but I avoid it when I can do things through a GUI. Perhaps you'll think less of me as a programmer for saying this, but I have a mild aversion to the command line. Any time you want to interact with Mercurial, such as committing some changes to the repository, you would run a certain specific command. ![]() Let's kick things off with a description of how to get set up with the tools that you'll need.
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