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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 was published in 2009 by O'Reilly Media.</p>

13

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

15 fast, lightweight source control management system

16 designed for easy and efficient handling of very large distributed

17 projects. My book tells you what it is, why you should care, and

18 how you can use it effectively.</p>

19

20 <h2>Read it online</h2>

21

22 <p>I make the content freely available online: you

23 can <a href="/read/"><i>read it here</i></a>. If you like it,

24 please <a href="#buy">buy a copy</a>!</p>

25

26 <p>For news updates, please

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

28 should follow me on

29 Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/bos31337">here</a>.</p>

30

31 <h2><a name="#buy">How</a> to buy</h2>

32

33 <p>If you like the book, please support the work of the Software

34 Freedom Conservancy (<a href="#sfc">see below</a>) by buying a

35 copy.</p>

36

37 <ul>

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>

39 <li><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596800673/">O'Reilly Media</a></li>

40 </ul>

41

42 <h2>You should contribute!</h2>

43

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

45 as <a href="http://bitbucket.org/bos/hgbook">a

46 Mercurial repository</a>. Please feel

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

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

49 you have Mercurial installed:</p>

50

51 <pre class="screen">hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/hgbook</pre>

52

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

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

55 suggestions.</p>

56

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

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

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

60

61 <h2><a name="sfc">How</a> I help Mercurial and free software, and

62 you can too</h2>

63

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

65 wonderful non-profit organisation that offers its member projects

66 legal and administrative advice.</p>

67

68 <p>I donate my royalties from the sales of this book to the

69 Software Freedom Conservancy, and I encourage you to support their

70 work, too.</p>

71

72 <p>The SFC can

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

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

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

76 support Mercurial directly, please consider making a donation to

77 the SFC on its behalf.</p>

78

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

80 their important public services without being impeded by legal

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

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

83 Center</a>.</p>

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