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     1.4 +\chapter*{Preface}
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     1.7 +
     1.8 +Distributed revision control is a relatively new territory, and has
     1.9 +thus far grown due to people's willingness to strike out into
    1.10 +ill-charted territory.
    1.11 +
    1.12 +I am writing a book about distributed revision control because I
    1.13 +believe that it is an important subject that deserves a field guide.
    1.14 +I chose to write about Mercurial because it is the easiest tool to
    1.15 +learn the terrain with, and yet it scales to the demands of real,
    1.16 +challenging environments where many other revision control tools fail.
    1.17 +
    1.18 +\section{This book is a work in progress}
    1.19 +
    1.20 +I am releasing this book while I am still writing it, in the hope that
    1.21 +it will prove useful to others.  I also hope that readers will
    1.22 +contribute as they see fit.
    1.23 +
    1.24 +\section{Colophon---this book is Free}
    1.25 +
    1.26 +This book is licensed under the Open Publication License, and is
    1.27 +produced entirely using Free Software tools.  It is typeset with
    1.28 +\LaTeX{}; illustrations are drawn and rendered with
    1.29 +\href{http://www.inkscape.org/}{Inkscape}.
    1.30 +
    1.31 +The complete source code for this book is published as a Mercurial
    1.32 +repository, at \url{http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book}.
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