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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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7 <div class="book">
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8 <h2>Welcome to Mercurial: The Definitive Guide</h2>
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9
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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 will be published in 2009 by O'Reilly Media.</p>
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13
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14 <p>I make the content <a href="/read/">freely available
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15 online</a>. If you like it, please make a note to buy a copy!</p>
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16
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17 <p>For news updates, please
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18 visit <a href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog/">my blog</a>.</p>
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19
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20 <h2>You can contribute!</h2>
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21
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22 <p>I publish the source code for this book
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23 as <a href="http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book">a
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24 Mercurial repository</a>. Please feel
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25 welcome to clone it, make modifications to your copy, and send me
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26 changes. Getting a copy of the source takes just a few seconds if
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27 you have Mercurial installed:</p>
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29 <pre class="screen">hg clone http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book</pre>
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30
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31 <p>The online version of the book includes a comment system
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32 that you can use to send feedback involving errors, omissions, and
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33 suggestions.</p>
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34
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35 <p>(If you would like to adapt the comment system for a
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36 publishing project of your own, the source for the web application
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37 is included with the book source at the link above.)</p>
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38
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39 <h2>What is Mercurial?</h2>
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40
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41 <p><a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial</a> is a
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42 fast, lightweight source control management system
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43 designed for easy and efficient handling of very large distributed
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44 projects.</p>
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45
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46 <h2>How I help Mercurial and free software, and you can too</h2>
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47
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48 <p>Mercurial is a member of the <a href="http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>, a
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49 wonderful non-profit organisation that offers its member projects
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50 legal and administrative advice.</p>
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51
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52 <p>I am donating my royalties from the sales of this book (once it is
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53 published) to the Software Freedom Conservancy, and I encourage
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54 you to support their work, too.</p>
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55
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56 <p>The SFC can
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57 accept <a href="http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/?donate">accept
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58 donations</a> (tax-free under IRS 501(c)(3), within the United
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59 States) on behalf of its member projects. If you would like to
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60 support Mercurial directly, please consider making a donation to
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61 the SFC on its behalf.</p>
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62
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63 <p>If you would like to help free software developers to provide
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64 their important public services without being impeded by legal
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65 issues, please consider donating to the SFC's sister organisation,
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66 the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law
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67 Center</a>.</p>
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