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author Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
date Mon Jul 17 00:01:01 2006 -0700 (2006-07-17)
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bos@26 1 \chapter*{Preface}
bos@26 2 \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Preface}
bos@26 3 \label{chap:preface}
bos@26 4
bos@26 5 Distributed revision control is a relatively new territory, and has
bos@26 6 thus far grown due to people's willingness to strike out into
bos@26 7 ill-charted territory.
bos@26 8
bos@26 9 I am writing a book about distributed revision control because I
bos@26 10 believe that it is an important subject that deserves a field guide.
bos@26 11 I chose to write about Mercurial because it is the easiest tool to
bos@26 12 learn the terrain with, and yet it scales to the demands of real,
bos@26 13 challenging environments where many other revision control tools fail.
bos@26 14
bos@26 15 \section{This book is a work in progress}
bos@26 16
bos@26 17 I am releasing this book while I am still writing it, in the hope that
bos@26 18 it will prove useful to others. I also hope that readers will
bos@26 19 contribute as they see fit.
bos@26 20
bos@26 21 \section{Colophon---this book is Free}
bos@26 22
bos@26 23 This book is licensed under the Open Publication License, and is
bos@26 24 produced entirely using Free Software tools. It is typeset with
bos@26 25 \LaTeX{}; illustrations are drawn and rendered with
bos@26 26 \href{http://www.inkscape.org/}{Inkscape}.
bos@26 27
bos@26 28 The complete source code for this book is published as a Mercurial
bos@26 29 repository, at \url{http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book}.
bos@26 30
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