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5 <div class="navheader"><h1 class="booktitle">Mercurial: The Definitive Guide<div class="authors">by Bryan O'Sullivan</div></h1></div> |
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8 <h2>Welcome to Mercurial: The Definitive Guide</h2> |
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10 <p>This is the online home of the book “Mercurial: The |
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11 Definitive Guide”. |
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12 It was published in 2009 by O'Reilly Media.</p> |
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14 <p><a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial</a> is a |
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15 fast, lightweight source control management system |
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16 designed for easy and efficient handling of very large distributed |
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17 projects. My book tells you what it is, why you should care, and |
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18 how you can use it effectively.</p> |
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19 |
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20 <h2>Read it online</h2> |
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21 |
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22 <p>I make the content freely available online: you |
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23 can <a href="/read/"><i>read it here</i></a>. If you like it, |
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24 please <a href="#buy">buy a copy</a>!</p> |
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25 |
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26 <p>For news updates, please |
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27 visit <a href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog/">my blog</a>. You |
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28 should follow me on |
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29 Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/bos31337">here</a>.</p> |
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30 |
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31 <h2><a name="#buy">How</a> to buy</h2> |
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32 |
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33 <p>If you like the book, please support the work of the Software |
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34 Freedom Conservancy (<a href="#sfc">see below</a>) by buying a |
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35 copy.</p> |
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36 |
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37 <ul> |
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38 <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596800673?ie=UTF8&tag=reaworhas-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0596800673">Amazon.com</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=reaworhas-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0596800673" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></li> |
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39 <li><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596800673/">O'Reilly Media</a></li> |
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40 </ul> |
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41 |
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42 <h2>You should contribute!</h2> |
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43 |
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44 <p>I publish the source code for this book |
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45 as <a href="http://bitbucket.org/bos/hgbook">a |
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46 Mercurial repository</a>. Please feel |
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47 welcome to clone it, make modifications to your copy, and send me |
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48 changes. Getting a copy of the source takes just a few seconds if |
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49 you have Mercurial installed:</p> |
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50 |
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51 <pre class="screen">hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/hgbook</pre> |
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52 |
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53 <p>The online version of the book includes a comment system |
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54 that you can use to send feedback involving errors, omissions, and |
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55 suggestions.</p> |
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56 |
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57 <p>(If you would like to adapt the comment system for a |
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58 publishing project of your own, the source for the web application |
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59 is included with the book source at the link above.)</p> |
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60 |
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61 <h2><a name="sfc">How</a> I help Mercurial and free software, and |
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62 you can too</h2> |
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63 |
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64 <p>Mercurial is a member of the <a href="http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>, a |
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65 wonderful non-profit organisation that offers its member projects |
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66 legal and administrative advice.</p> |
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67 |
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68 <p>I donate my royalties from the sales of this book to the |
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69 Software Freedom Conservancy, and I encourage you to support their |
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70 work, too.</p> |
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71 |
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72 <p>The SFC can |
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73 accept <a href="http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/?donate">accept |
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74 donations</a> (tax-free under IRS 501(c)(3), within the United |
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75 States) on behalf of its member projects. If you would like to |
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76 support Mercurial directly, please consider making a donation to |
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77 the SFC on its behalf.</p> |
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78 |
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79 <p>If you would like to help free software developers to provide |
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80 their important public services without being impeded by legal |
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81 issues, please consider donating to the SFC's sister organisation, |
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82 the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law |
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83 Center</a>.</p> |
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