A series of 10 easy-to-perform practical recipes to quick start and get going with Mercurial simplicity and power Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results. Learn version control quickly using Mercurial basics and advanced features Set up and work with the Mercurial server for collaborative software development Practise a centralized workflow and continuous integration Customize Mercurial with advanced commands, hooks, and extensions In Detail A version control system provides a central repository to effectively...

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...