Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

Bryan O'Sullivan

ISBN 10: 0596800673 / ISBN 13: 9780596800673

Published by O'reilly Media Jul 2009, 2009

About this Item

Neuware - Mercurial: The Definitive Guide takes you step-by-step through ways to track, merge, and manage software projects with this flexible, open source version control system. Used by Mozilla, Python, and various open source projects on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and several variants of Unix, Mercurial permits virtually an infinite variety of methods for development and collaboration, including both centralized and distributed version control.This guide starts with the basics, including how to work with a version repository. You ll learn to use Mercurial to collaborate with others, merge streams of work, manage releases, find and fix mistakes, and more. You ll also get up to speed on advanced uses, such as handling repository events with hooks, and customizing Mercurial s output.Like the versioning system it describes, Mercurial: The Definitive Guide has a strong focus on simplicity to help you learn Mercurial quickly and thoroughly.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
• Publisher: O'reilly Media Jul 2009
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0596800673
• ISBN 13: 9780596800673
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 237W x 192H x 22D millimeters 237 millimeters width by 192 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 518 grams

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Synopsis

This instructive book takes you step by step through ways to track, merge, and manage both open source and commercial software projects with Mercurial, using Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and other systems. Mercurial is the easiest system to learn when it comes to distributed revision control. And it's a very flexible tool that's ideal whether you're a lone programmer working on a small project, or part of a huge team dealing with thousands of files.

Mercurial permits a countless variety of development and collaboration methods, and this book offers several concrete suggestions to get you started. This guide will help you:

• Learn the basics of working with a repository, changesets, and revisions
• Merge changes from separate repositories
• Set up Mercurial to work with files on a daily basis, including which ones to track
• Get examples and tools for setting up various workflow models
• Manage a project that's making progress on multiple fronts at once
• Find and fix mistakes by isolating problem sources
• Use hooks to perform actions automatically in response to repository events
• Customize the output of Mercurial

Mercurial: The Definitive Guide maintains a strong focus on simplicity to help you learn Mercurial quickly and thoroughly.

About the Author

Bryan O'Sullivan is an Irish writer and developer who works with distributed systems, open source software, and programming languages. He wrote the award-winning O'Reilly title Real World Haskell. He has made significant contributions to the popular Mercurial revision control system, and to a number of other open source projects. He lives in San Francisco with his family. Whenever he can, he runs off to climb rocks.