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     1.8 +  <title>Preface</title>
     1.9 +
    1.10 +  <sect1>
    1.11 +    <title>Technical storytelling</title>
    1.12 +
    1.13 +    <para id="x_72e">A few years ago, when I wanted to explain why I believed
    1.14 +      that distributed revision control is important, the field was
    1.15 +      then so new that there was almost no published literature to
    1.16 +      refer people to.</para>
    1.17 +
    1.18 +    <para id="x_72f">Although at that time I spent some time working on the
    1.19 +      internals of Mercurial itself, I switched to writing this book
    1.20 +      because that seemed like the most effective way to help the
    1.21 +      software to reach a wide audience, along with the idea that
    1.22 +      revision control ought to be distributed in nature.  I publish
    1.23 +      the book online under a liberal license for the same
    1.24 +      reason: to get the word out.</para>
    1.25 +
    1.26 +    <para id="x_730">There's a familiar rhythm to a good software book that
    1.27 +      closely resembles telling a story: What is this thing?  Why does
    1.28 +      it matter?  How will it help me?  How do I use it?  In this
    1.29 +      book, I try to answer those questions for distributed revision
    1.30 +      control in general, and for Mercurial in particular.</para>
    1.31 +  </sect1>
    1.32 +    
    1.33 +  <sect1>
    1.34 +    <title>Thank you for supporting Mercurial</title>
    1.35 +
    1.36 +    <para id="x_731">By purchasing a copy of this book, you are supporting the
    1.37 +      continued development and freedom of Mercurial in particular,
    1.38 +      and of open source and free software in general. O'Reilly Media
    1.39 +      and I are donating my royalties on the sales of this book to the
    1.40 +      Software Freedom Conservancy (<ulink
    1.41 +	url="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">http://www.softwarefreedom.org/</ulink>) 
    1.42 +      which provides clerical and legal support to Mercurial and a
    1.43 +      number of other prominent and worthy open source software
    1.44 +      projects.</para>
    1.45 +  </sect1>
    1.46 +
    1.47 +  <sect1>
    1.48 +    <title>Acknowledgments</title>
    1.49 +
    1.50 +    <para id="x_732">This book would not exist were it not for the efforts of
    1.51 +      Matt Mackall, the author and project lead of Mercurial.  He is
    1.52 +      ably assisted by hundreds of volunteer contributors across the
    1.53 +      world.</para>
    1.54 +
    1.55 +    <para id="x_733">My children, Cian and Ruairi, always stood ready to help me
    1.56 +      to unwind with wonderful, madcap little-boy games.  I'd also
    1.57 +      like to thank my ex-wife, Shannon, for her support.</para>
    1.58 +
    1.59 +    <para id="x_734">My colleagues and friends provided help and support in
    1.60 +      innumerable ways.  This list of people is necessarily very
    1.61 +      incomplete: Stephen Hahn, Karyn Ritter, Bonnie Corwin, James
    1.62 +      Vasile, Matt Norwood, Eben Moglen, Bradley Kuhn, Robert Walsh,
    1.63 +      Jeremy Fitzhardinge, Rachel Chalmers.</para>
    1.64 +
    1.65 +    <para id="x_735">I developed this book in the open, posting drafts of
    1.66 +      chapters to the book web site as I completed them.  Readers then
    1.67 +      submitted feedback using a web application that I developed.  By
    1.68 +      the time I finished writing the book, more than 100 people had
    1.69 +      submitted comments, an amazing number considering that the
    1.70 +      comment system was live for only about two months towards the
    1.71 +      end of the writing process.</para>
    1.72 +
    1.73 +    <para id="x_736">I would particularly like to recognize the following people,
    1.74 +      who between them contributed over a third of the total number of
    1.75 +      comments.  I would like to thank them for their care and effort
    1.76 +      in providing so much detailed feedback.</para>
    1.77 +
    1.78 +    <para id="x_737">Martin Geisler, Damien Cassou, Alexey Bakhirkin, Till Plewe,
    1.79 +      Dan Himes, Paul Sargent, Gokberk Hamurcu, Matthijs van der
    1.80 +      Vleuten, Michael Chermside, John Mulligan, Jordi Fita, Jon
    1.81 +      Parise.</para>
    1.82 +
    1.83 +    <para id="x_738">I also want to acknowledge the help of the many people who
    1.84 +      caught errors and provided helpful suggestions throughout the
    1.85 +      book.</para>
    1.86 +
    1.87 +    <para id="x_739">Jeremy W. Sherman, Brian Mearns, Vincent Furia, Iwan
    1.88 +      Luijks, Billy Edwards, Andreas Sliwka, Paweł Sołyga, Eric
    1.89 +      Hanchrow, Steve Nicolai, Michał Masłowski, Kevin Fitch, Johan
    1.90 +      Holmberg, Hal Wine, Volker Simonis, Thomas P Jakobsen, Ted
    1.91 +      Stresen-Reuter, Stephen Rasku, Raphael Das Gupta, Ned
    1.92 +      Batchelder, Lou Keeble, Li Linxiao, Kao Cardoso Félix, Joseph
    1.93 +      Wecker, Jon Prescot, Jon Maken, John Yeary, Jason Harris,
    1.94 +      Geoffrey Zheng, Fredrik Jonson, Ed Davies, David Zumbrunnen,
    1.95 +      David Mercer, David Cabana, Ben Karel, Alan Franzoni, Yousry
    1.96 +      Abdallah, Whitney Young, Vinay Sajip, Tom Towle, Tim Ottinger,
    1.97 +      Thomas Schraitle, Tero Saarni, Ted Mielczarek, Svetoslav
    1.98 +      Agafonkin, Shaun Rowland, Rocco Rutte, Polo-Francois Poli,
    1.99 +      Philip Jenvey, Petr Tesałék, Peter R. Annema, Paul Bonser,
   1.100 +      Olivier Scherler, Olivier Fournier, Nick Parker, Nick Fabry,
   1.101 +      Nicholas Guarracino, Mike Driscoll, Mike Coleman, Mietek Bák,
   1.102 +      Michael Maloney, László Nagy, Kent Johnson, Julio Nobrega, Jord
   1.103 +      Fita, Jonathan March, Jonas Nockert, Jim Tittsler, Jeduan
   1.104 +      Cornejo Legorreta, Jan Larres, James Murphy, Henri Wiechers,
   1.105 +      Hagen Möbius, Gábor Farkas, Fabien Engels, Evert Rol, Evan
   1.106 +      Willms, Eduardo Felipe Castegnaro, Dennis Decker Jensen, Deniz
   1.107 +      Dogan, David Smith, Daed Lee, Christine Slotty, Charles Merriam,
   1.108 +      Guillaume Catto, Brian Dorsey, Bob Nystrom, Benoit Boissinot,
   1.109 +      Avi Rosenschein, Andrew Watts, Andrew Donkin, Alexey Rodriguez,
   1.110 +      Ahmed Chaudhary.</para>
   1.111 +  </sect1>
   1.112 +
   1.113 +  <sect1>
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