Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

by Bryan O'Sullivan

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

Genres: Programming, Nonfiction, Technical, Technology, Software, Reference, Computer Science

280 pages, Paperback

First published June 16, 2009

Reviews

[Jeff Patterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a fine book but meant for use at the command line. I use TortoiseHG and I can use the command line, although I never do.

[Paschalis]

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[Satyaki · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Reggie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mercurial rocks. So many things I've wanted to do with version control for years and now it's all possible. If you're using Subversion or anything like it I highly recommend switching if it at all possible. We actually use Kiln, which is just Mercurial with a nice web interface and integration into Fogbugz.

This book is a decent reference, though I still find I need to use other sources too at times.

[Senthil Kumaran · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a comprehensive book about hg, which states it's design goals upfront and leads you step by step with the various usage commands. The contents and chapters of the book is very well organized. It takes the reader from the ground up on why hg works in a certain way and tries to help the reader understand it's simple design and so that they can work with the system, extend it and derive maximum benefits. This helped me to understand my current worflow too. :)

[Glenn Burnside · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good introduction to Mercurial for source control, which I'm finding to be simpler than Git, but sufficiently powerful for my and my team's needs. Read this book, then get yourself an account on bitbucket.org.

[Jyri-Matti Lähteenmäki]

A bit of a disappointment. Covers all the basic stuff and then focuses on patches. I would have liked to know some advanced tips and tricks and poweruser features or something... Well, since it seems to be the only book ever written on Mercurial (What!?!) it's worth a read.

[Brent · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great introduction to Mercurial.

[Daniel Galassi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Having used Centralised version control systems for over a decade, this book was a pretty good introduction to Distributed VC in general and Mercurial in particular.