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= Mercurial Book =

About ''Mercurial: The Definitive Guide''.

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== Reading the book ==

''Mercurial: The Definitive Guide'', by Bryan O'Sullivan, is a freely-licensed book about the Mercurial revision control system.

  * Home page: https://book.mercurial-scm.org/
  * Read it online [[https://book.mercurial-scm.org/read/]]
  * The [[https://bitbucket.org/hgbook/hgbook|source code]] is available to the adventurous.
  * The [[https://bitbucket.org/jan_/hgbook/downloads/hgbook.epub|epub version]] for ebook reading devices.

== Supplemental information ==

The book covers Mercurial through version 1.0, which predates a number of important features that you can read about here:

  * The [[Cmd:summary|summary command]]
  * The [[Cmd:resolve|resolve command]]
  * [[NamedBranches|Named branches]]
  * [[Topic:revsets|Revision sets]]
  * The [[RebaseExtension|rebase extension]]
  * The [[HisteditExtension|histedit extension]]
  * [[Subrepositories]]
  * [[Phases]]

== Translations ==
  * [[http://bitbucket.org/rpelisse/hgbook-fr/|French]] ([[http://bitbucket.org/rpelisse/hgbook-fr/|source]]) (Work in progress...)
  * [[http://gpiancastelli.altervista.org/hgbook-it/|Italian]] ([[http://bitbucket.org/gpiancastelli/hgbook-it|source]])
  * [[http://devnull.li/libromercurial/index.es.html|Spanish]] ([[http://mercurial.intuxication.org/hg/mercurial_book_es/|source]])
  * Chinese:
    * [[http://bitbucket.org/dongsheng/hgbook/|Source code]] (Work in progress...)
    * The [[http://code.google.com/p/i18n-zh/downloads/list?q=label:hgbook|HTML/PDF/eBook]] (Chinese & English) version is available.
  * [[http://foozy.bitbucket.org/hgbook-ja/index.ja.html|Japanese]] ([[http://bitbucket.org/foozy/hgbook-ja/|source]])

== See also ==

  * Mercurial repository: https://bitbucket.org/hgbook/hgbook
  * [[BuildingMercurialBook|Building the Mercurial book]]
  * [[MercurialBookPlan|Plan for the next version of the Mercurial book]]

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