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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 <a href="http://hgbook.red-bean.com/">source

23 code</a> for this book as a Mercurial repository. Please feel

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

25 changes.</p>

26

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

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

29 suggestions.</p>

30

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

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

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

34

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

36

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

38 fast, lightweight source control management system

39 designed for easy and efficient handling of very large distributed

40 projects.</p>

41

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

43

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

45 wonderful non-profit organisation that offers its member projects

46 legal and administrative advice.</p>

47

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

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

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

51

52 <p>The SFC can

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

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

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

56 support Mercurial directly, please consider making a donation to

57 the SFC on its behalf.</p>

58

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

60 their important public services without being impeded by legal

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

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

63 Center</a>.</p>

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