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| author | Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> |
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| date | Tue Jul 11 23:48:25 2006 -0700 (2006-07-11) |
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5 Distributed revision control is a relatively new territory, and has
6 thus far grown due to people's willingness to strike out into
7 ill-charted territory.
9 I am writing a book about distributed revision control because I
10 believe that it is an important subject that deserves a field guide.
11 I chose to write about Mercurial because it is the easiest tool to
12 learn the terrain with, and yet it scales to the demands of real,
13 challenging environments where many other revision control tools fail.
15 \section{This book is a work in progress}
17 I am releasing this book while I am still writing it, in the hope that
18 it will prove useful to others. I also hope that readers will
19 contribute as they see fit.
21 \section{Colophon---this book is Free}
23 This book is licensed under the Open Publication License, and is
24 produced entirely using Free Software tools. It is typeset with
25 \LaTeX{}; illustrations are drawn and rendered with
26 \href{http://www.inkscape.org/}{Inkscape}.
28 The complete source code for this book is published as a Mercurial
29 repository, at \url{http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book}.
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