diff en/ch01-tour-basic.xml @ 826:a17d6390a480

More fixes to chapters 1 and 2.

--- a/en/ch01-tour-basic.xml	Sun May 03 19:23:31 2009 -0700
+++ b/en/ch01-tour-basic.xml	Sun May 03 20:27:09 2009 -0700
@@ -867,9 +867,7 @@
 	    linkend="sec:tour:pull"/> when we ran it without <option
 	  role="hg-opt-pull">-u</option>, you can see that it printed
 	a helpful reminder that we'd have to take an explicit step to
-	update the working directory:</para>
-
-      <!-- &interaction.xxx.fixme; -->
+	update the working directory.</para>
 
       <para id="x_62">To find out what revision the working directory
 	is at, use the <command role="hg-cmd">hg parents</command>
@@ -990,6 +988,44 @@
       &interaction.tour.push.net;
     </sect2>
   </sect1>
+
+  <sect1>
+    <title>Starting a new project</title>
+
+    <para>It is just as easy to begin a new project as to work on one
+      that already exists.  The <command>hg init</command> command
+      creates a new, empty Mercurial repository.</para>
+
+    &interaction.ch01-new.init;
+
+    <para>This simply creates a repository named
+      <filename>myproject</filename> in the current directory.</para>
+
+    &interaction.ch01-new.ls;
+
+    <para>We can tell that <filename>myproject</filename> is a
+      Mercurial repository, because it contains a
+      <filename>.hg</filename> directory.</para>
+
+    &interaction.ch01-new.ls2;
+
+    <para>If we want to add some pre-existing files to the repository,
+      we copy them into place, and tell Mercurial to start tracking
+      them using the <command>hg add</command> command.</para>
+
+    &interaction.ch01-new.add;
+
+    <para>Once we are satisfied that our project looks right, we
+      commit our changes.</para>
+
+    &interaction.ch01-new.commit;
+
+    <para>It takes just a few moments to start using Mercurial on a
+      new project, which is part of its appeal. Revision control is
+      now so easy to work with, we can use it on the smallest of
+      projects that we might not have considered with a more
+      complicated tool.</para>
+  </sect1>
 </chapter>
 
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