A Brief History of Revision Control

•  Why Revision Control? Why Mercurial?
•  This Book Is a Work in Progress
•  About the Examples in This Book
•  Trends in the Field
•  A Few Advantages of Distributed Revision Control

Why Choose Mercurial?

•  Mercurial Compared with Other Tools
•  Switching from another Tool to Mercurial
•  A Short History of Revision Control

A Tour of Mercurial: The Basics

•  Installing Mercurial on Your System
•  Getting Started
•  Working with a Repository
•  A Tour through History
•  All about Command Options
•  Making and Reviewing Changes
•  Recording Changes in a New Changeset
•  Sharing Changes
•  Starting a New Project

A Tour of Mercurial: Merging Work

•  Merging Streams of Work
•  Merging Conflicting Changes
•  Simplifying the Pull-Merge-Commit Sequence
•  Renaming, Copying, and Merging

Behind the Scenes

•  Mercurial’s Historical Record
•  Safe, Efficient Storage
•  Revision History, Branching, and Merging
•  The Working Directory
•  Other Interesting Design Features

Mercurial in Daily Use

•  Telling Mercurial Which Files to Track
•  How to Stop Tracking a File
•  Copying Files
•  Renaming Files
•  Recovering from Mistakes
•  Dealing with Tricky Merges
•  More Useful Diffs
•  Which Files to Manage, and Which to Avoid
•  Backups and Mirroring

Collaborating with Other People

•  Mercurial’s Web Interface
•  Collaboration Models
•  The Technical Side of Sharing
•  Informal Sharing with hg serve
•  Using the Secure Shell Protocol
•  Serving Over HTTP Using CGI
•  System-Wide Configuration

Filenames and Pattern Matching

•  Simple File Naming
•  Running Commands without Any Filenames
•  Telling You What’s Going On
•  Using Patterns to Identify Files
•  Filtering Files
•  Permanently Ignoring Unwanted Files and Directories
•  Case Sensitivity

Managing Releases and Branchy Development

•  Giving a Persistent Name to a Revision
•  The Flow of Changes: Big Picture versus Little Picture
•  Managing Big-Picture Branches in Repositories
•  Don’t Repeat Yourself: Merging Across Branches
•  Naming Branches within One Repository
•  Dealing with Multiple Named Branches in a Repository
•  Branch Names and Merging
•  Branch Naming Is Generally Useful

Finding and Fixing Mistakes

•  Erasing Local History
•  Reverting the Mistaken Change
•  Dealing with Committed Changes
•  Changes That Should Never Have Been
•  Finding the Source of a Bug
•  Tips for Finding Bugs Effectively

Handling Repository Events with Hooks

•  An Overview of Hooks in Mercurial
•  Hooks and Security
•  A Short Tutorial on Using Hooks
•  Writing Your Own Hooks
•  Some Hook Examples
•  Bundled Hooks
•  Information for Writers of Hooks
•  Hook Reference

Customizing the Output of Mercurial

•  Using Precanned Output Styles
•  Commands That Support Styles and Templates
•  The Basics of Templating
•  Common Template Keywords
•  Escape Sequences
•  Filtering Keywords to Change Their Results
•  From Templates to Styles
•  Style Files by Example

Managing Changes with Mercurial Queues

•  The Patch Management Problem
•  The Prehistory of Mercurial Queues
•  The Huge Advantage of MQ
•  Understanding Patches
•  Getting Started with Mercurial Queues
•  More about Patches
•  More on Patch Management
•  Getting the Best Performance Out of MQ
•  Updating Your Patches When the Underlying Code Changes
•  Identifying Patches
•  Useful Things to Know About
•  Managing Patches in a Repository
•  Third-Party Tools for Working with Patches
•  Good Ways to Work with Patches
•  MQ Cookbook
•  Differences between Quilt and MQ

Advanced Uses of Mercurial Queues

•  The Problem of Many Targets
•  Conditionally Applying Patches with Guards
•  Controlling the Guards on a Patch
•  Selecting the Guards to Use
•  MQ’s Rules for Applying Patches
•  Trimming the Work Environment
•  Dividing Up the Series File
•  Maintaining the Patch Series
•  Useful Tips for Developing with MQ

Adding Functionality with Extensions

•  Improve Performance with the inotify Extension
•  Flexible Diff Support with the extdiff Extension
•  Cherry-Picking Changes with the transplant Extension
•  Sending Changes via Email with the patchbomb Extension

Migrating to Mercurial

•  Importing History from another System
•  Migrating from Subversion
•  Useful Tips for Newcomers
•  Appendix Mercurial Queues Reference
•  MQ Command Reference
•  MQ File Reference

Installing Mercurial from Source

•  On a Unix-Like System
•  On Windows

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