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Commit 9d88916f authored by Mike Williams's avatar Mike Williams
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help/config: note 64-bit Windows registry key used with 32-bit Python

Before this patch the only place that documented the use of a different
registry key was on the wiki page for installing on Windows from
sources, while most users will use a pre-packaged installer and the
supplied help files.

This patch documents in the supplied help files that an alternate
registry key is used for the installation/system configuration file when
using 32-bit Python on a 64-bit Windows.
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be read. Mercurial checks each of these locations in the specified
order until one or more configuration files are detected.
.. note:: The registry key ``HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mercurial``
is used when running 32-bit Python on 64-bit Windows.
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