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3 \label{chap:preface}
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5 Distributed revision control is a relatively new territory, and has
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6 thus far grown due to people's willingness to strike out into
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7 ill-charted territory.
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9 I am writing a book about distributed revision control because I
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10 believe that it is an important subject that deserves a field guide.
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11 I chose to write about Mercurial because it is the easiest tool to
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12 learn the terrain with, and yet it scales to the demands of real,
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13 challenging environments where many other revision control tools fail.
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15 \section{This book is a work in progress}
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17 I am releasing this book while I am still writing it, in the hope that
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18 it will prove useful to others. I also hope that readers will
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19 contribute as they see fit.
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21 \section{Colophon---this book is Free}
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23 This book is licensed under the Open Publication License, and is
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24 produced entirely using Free Software tools. It is typeset with
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26 \href{http://www.inkscape.org/}{Inkscape}.
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28 The complete source code for this book is published as a Mercurial
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29 repository, at \url{http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book}.
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33 %%% TeX-master: "00book"
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