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Mercurial: the definitive guide (Second Edition)
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Mercurial: the definitive guide (Second Edition)</title> </head> <body> <h1>Mercurial: the definitive guide</h1> <h2>First edition (stable)</h2> <p> The first edition of the book was authored by Bryan O'Sullivan and published by O'Reilly in 2009. An HTML version of the book is <a href="http://hgbook.red-bean.com/">available for free</a>. </p> <h2>Second edition (in progress)</h2> <p> Work on the second edition of the book was started in 2015 by Mathias De Maré. The current version can be <a href="/read/">read online</a>. </p> <p> We, the Hgbook team, want to bring the book up-to-date and explain new concepts and features that have been added to Mercurial in the past few years. Some of the topics that have already been added are: <ul> <li>Customizing the output of Mercurial through the use of <b>templates</b></li> <li>Changing history using <b>amend</b>, <b>rebase</b> and <b>histedit</b></li> <li>Scaling Mercurial for large repositories and user bases</li> </ul> </p> <p> We welcome contributions to <a href="https://bitbucket.org/hgbook/hgbook">the Hgbook project on Bitbucket</a>. </p> </body> </html>