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+Distributed revision control is a relatively new territory, and has
+thus far grown due to people's willingness to strike out into
+ill-charted territory.
+
+I am writing a book about distributed revision control because I
+believe that it is an important subject that deserves a field guide.
+I chose to write about Mercurial because it is the easiest tool to
+learn the terrain with, and yet it scales to the demands of real,
+challenging environments where many other revision control tools fail.
+
+\section{This book is a work in progress}
+
+I am releasing this book while I am still writing it, in the hope that
+it will prove useful to others.  I also hope that readers will
+contribute as they see fit.
+
+\section{Colophon---this book is Free}
+
+This book is licensed under the Open Publication License, and is
+produced entirely using Free Software tools.  It is typeset with
+\LaTeX{}; illustrations are drawn and rendered with
+\href{http://www.inkscape.org/}{Inkscape}.
+
+The complete source code for this book is published as a Mercurial
+repository, at \url{http://hg.serpentine.com/mercurial/book}.
+
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