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Mercurial: the Definitive Guide by Bryan O'Sullivan

Mercurial: the Definitive Guide

The Definitive Guide

Bryan O'Sullivan

O'Reilly Media · Print & ebook · July 28, 2009

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.

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Who it’s for
Mercurial workflows cover repository basics, merging, project management, hooks, and output customization.
Genres
Dev Tools & Workflow, Open Source Development, Software Development
Published
O'Reilly Media, July 28, 2009

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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.

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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.

Mercurial Workflows

Mercurial workflows cover repository basics, merging, project management, hooks, and output customization.

Come here for

  • Repository, changeset, and revision basics
  • Merging changes across separate repositories

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  • Hooks that act automatically in response to repository events
  • Options for customizing Mercurial’s output

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Dev Tools & Workflow52%
Open Source Development34%
Software Development24%

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Publisher categories

  • Software Project Management
  • Dev Tools & Workflow
Authors
Bryan O'Sullivan
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Published
July 28, 2009
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Software Project Management