
bos@26: \chapter*{Preface}
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bos@26: 
bos@26: Distributed revision control is a relatively new territory, and has
bos@26: thus far grown due to people's willingness to strike out into
bos@26: ill-charted territory.
bos@26: 
bos@26: I am writing a book about distributed revision control because I
bos@26: believe that it is an important subject that deserves a field guide.
bos@26: I chose to write about Mercurial because it is the easiest tool to
bos@26: learn the terrain with, and yet it scales to the demands of real,
bos@26: challenging environments where many other revision control tools fail.
bos@26: 
bos@26: \section{This book is a work in progress}
bos@26: 
bos@26: I am releasing this book while I am still writing it, in the hope that
bos@26: it will prove useful to others.  I also hope that readers will
bos@26: contribute as they see fit.
bos@26: 
bos@26: \section{Colophon---this book is Free}
bos@26: 
bos@26: This book is licensed under the Open Publication License, and is
bos@26: produced entirely using Free Software tools.  It is typeset with
bos@26: \LaTeX{}; illustrations are drawn and rendered with
bos@26: \href{http://www.inkscape.org/}{Inkscape}.
bos@26: 
bos@26: The complete source code for this book is published as a Mercurial
bos@26: repository, at \url{http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book}.
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