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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... read more

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Revision control is the process of managing multiple versions of a piece of information. In its simplest form, this is something that many people do by hand: every time you modify a file, save it under a new name that contains a number, each one higher than the number of the preceding version.

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0. Preface
1. How did we get here?
2. A tour of Mercurial: the basics
3. A tour of Mercurial: merging work
4. Behind the scenes
5. Mercurial in daily use
6. Collaborating with other people
7. File names and pattern matching
8. Managing releases and branchy development
9. Finding and fixing mistakes
10. Handling repository events with hooks
11. Customizing the output of Mercurial
12. Managing change with Mercurial Queues
13. Advanced uses of Mercurial Queues
14. Adding functionality with extensions
A. Migrating to Mercurial
B. Mercurial Queues reference
C. Installing Mercurial from source
D. Open Publication License

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  1. Bryan O'Sullivan (Author)

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  1. 2011
  2. dev
  3. dvcs
  4. mercurial
  5. programming
  6. scm
  7. vcs 

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