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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>

9

10 <p>This is the online home of the book &#8220;Mercurial: The

11 Definitive Guide&#8221;.

12 It will be published in 2009 by O'Reilly Media.</p>

13

14 <p>I make the content <a href="/read/">freely available

15 online</a>. If you like it, please make a note to buy a copy!</p>

16

17 <p>For news updates, please

18 visit <a href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog/">my blog</a>.</p>

19

20 <h2>You can contribute!</h2>

21

22 <p>I publish the source code for this book

23 as <a href="http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book">a

24 Mercurial repository</a>. Please feel

25 welcome to clone it, make modifications to your copy, and send me

26 changes. Getting a copy of the source takes just a few seconds if

27 you have Mercurial installed:</p>

28

29 <pre class="screen">hg clone http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book</pre>

30

31 <p>The online version of the book includes a comment system

32 that you can use to send feedback involving errors, omissions, and

33 suggestions.</p>

34

35 <p>(If you would like to adapt the comment system for a

36 publishing project of your own, the source for the web application

37 is included with the book source at the link above.)</p>

38

39 <h2>What is Mercurial?</h2>

40

41 <p><a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial">Mercurial</a> is a

42 fast, lightweight source control management system

43 designed for easy and efficient handling of very large distributed

44 projects.</p>

45

46 <h2>How I help Mercurial and free software, and you can too</h2>

47

48 <p>Mercurial is a member of the <a href="http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>, a

49 wonderful non-profit organisation that offers its member projects

50 legal and administrative advice.</p>

51

52 <p>I am donating my royalties from the sales of this book (once it is

53 published) to the Software Freedom Conservancy, and I encourage

54 you to support their work, too.</p>

55

56 <p>The SFC can

57 accept <a href="http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/?donate">accept

58 donations</a> (tax-free under IRS 501(c)(3), within the United

59 States) on behalf of its member projects. If you would like to

60 support Mercurial directly, please consider making a donation to

61 the SFC on its behalf.</p>

62

63 <p>If you would like to help free software developers to provide

64 their important public services without being impeded by legal

65 issues, please consider donating to the SFC's sister organisation,

66 the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law

67 Center</a>.</p>

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