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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 was published in 2009 by O'Reilly Media.</p>

13

14 <h2>Read it online</h2>

15

16 <p>I make the content freely available online: you

17 can <a href="/read/"><i>read it here</i></a>. If you like it,

18 please <a href="#buy">buy a copy</a>!</p>

19

20 <p>For news updates, please

21 visit <a href="http://www.serpentine.com/blog/">my blog</a>. You

22 should follow me on

23 Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/bos31337">here</a>.</p>

24

25 <h2><a name="#buy">How</a> to buy</h2>

26

27 <p>If you like the book, please support the work of the Software

28 Freedom Conservancy (<a href="#sfc">see below</a>) by buying a

29 copy.</p>

30

31 <ul>

32 <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596800673?ie=UTF8&tag=reaworhas-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0596800673">Amazon.com</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=reaworhas-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0596800673" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></li>

33 <li><a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596800673/">O'Reilly Media</a></li>

34 </ul>

35

36 <h2>You should contribute!</h2>

37

38 <p>I publish the source code for this book

39 as <a href="http://bitbucket.org/bos/hgbook">a

40 Mercurial repository</a>. Please feel

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

42 changes. Getting a copy of the source takes just a few seconds if

43 you have Mercurial installed:</p>

44

45 <pre class="screen">hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/hgbook</pre>

46

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

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

49 suggestions.</p>

50

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

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

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

54

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

56

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

58 fast, lightweight source control management system

59 designed for easy and efficient handling of very large distributed

60 projects.</p>

61

62 <h2><a name="sfc">How</a> I help Mercurial and free software, and

63 you can too</h2>

64

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

66 wonderful non-profit organisation that offers its member projects

67 legal and administrative advice.</p>

68

69 <p>I donate my royalties from the sales of this book to the

70 Software Freedom Conservancy, and I encourage you to support their

71 work, too.</p>

72

73 <p>The SFC can

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

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

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

77 support Mercurial directly, please consider making a donation to

78 the SFC on its behalf.</p>

79

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

81 their important public services without being impeded by legal

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

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

84 Center</a>.</p>

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