Mercurial : The Definitive Guide

This instructive book takes you step by step through ways to track, merge, and manage both open source and commercial software projects with Mercurial, using Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and other systems. Mercurial is the easiest system to learn when it comes to distributed revision control. And it's a very flexible tool that's ideal whether you're a lone programmer working on a small project, or part of a huge team dealing with thousands of files. Mercurial permits a countless variety of development and collaboration methods, and this book offers several concrete suggestions to get you started. This guide will help you: Learn the basics of working with a repository, changesets, and revisions Merge changes from separate repositories Set up Mercurial to work with files on a daily basis, including which ones to track Get examples and tools for setting up various workflow models Manage a project that's making progress on multiple fronts at once Find and fix mistakes by isolating problem sources Use hooks to perform actions automatically in response to repository events Customize the output of Mercurial Mercurial: The Definitive Guide maintains a strong focus on simplicity to help you learn Mercurial quickly and thoroughly.

Bryan O'Sullivan is an Irish writer and developer who works with distributed systems, open source software, and programming languages. He wrote the award-winning O'Reilly title Real World Haskell. He lives in San Francisco with his family.

Preface
A Brief History of Revision Control
A Tour of Mercurial: The Basics
A Tour of Mercurial: Merging Work
Behind the Scenes
Mercurial in Daily Use
Collaborating with Other People
Filenames and Pattern Matching
Managing Releases and Branchy Development
Finding and Fixing Mistakes
Handling Repository Events with Hooks
Customizing the Output of Mercurial
Managing Changes with Mercurial Queues
Advanced Uses of Mercurial Queues
Adding Functionality with Extensions
Migrating to Mercurial
Mercurial Queues Reference
Installing Mercurial from Source
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