%\chapter{Introduction}
\chapter{$BF3F~(B}
\label{chap:intro}

%\section{About revision control}
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%Revision control is the process of managing multiple versions of a
%piece of information.  In its simplest form, this is something that
%many people do by hand: every time you modify a file, save it under a
%new name that contains a number, each one higher than the number of
%the preceding version.

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%Manually managing multiple versions of even a single file is an
%error-prone task, though, so software tools to help automate this
%process have long been available.  The earliest automated revision
%control tools were intended to help a single user to manage revisions
%of a single file.  Over the past few decades, the scope of revision
%control tools has expanded greatly; they now manage multiple files,
%and help multiple people to work together.  The best modern revision
%control tools have no problem coping with thousands of people working
%together on projects that consist of hundreds of thousands of files.

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%\subsection{Why use revision control?}
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%There are a number of reasons why you or your team might want to use
%an automated revision control tool for a project.
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%\item It will track the history and evolution of your project, so you
%  don't have to.  For every change, you'll have a log of \emph{who}
%  made it; \emph{why} they made it; \emph{when} they made it; and
%  \emph{what} the change was.
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%\item When you're working with other people, revision control software
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%  exactly when a problem was introduced (see
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%Most of these reasons are equally valid---at least in theory---whether
%you're working on a project by yourself, or with a hundred other
%people.
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%A key question about the practicality of revision control at these two
%different scales (``lone hacker'' and ``huge team'') is how its
%\emph{benefits} compare to its \emph{costs}.  A revision control tool
%that's difficult to understand or use is going to impose a high cost.

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%A five-hundred-person project is likely to collapse under its own
%weight almost immediately without a revision control tool and process.
%In this case, the cost of using revision control might hardly seem
%worth considering, since \emph{without} it, failure is almost
%guaranteed.

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%On the other hand, a one-person ``quick hack'' might seem like a poor
%place to use a revision control tool, because surely the cost of using
%one must be close to the overall cost of the project.  Right?

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%Mercurial uniquely supports \emph{both} of these scales of
%development.  You can learn the basics in just a few minutes, and due
%to its low overhead, you can apply revision control to the smallest of
%projects with ease.  Its simplicity means you won't have a lot of
%abstruse concepts or command sequences competing for mental space with
%whatever you're \emph{really} trying to do.  At the same time,
%Mercurial's high performance and peer-to-peer nature let you scale
%painlessly to handle large projects.

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%No revision control tool can rescue a poorly run project, but a good
%choice of tools can make a huge difference to the fluidity with which
%you can work on a project.

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%\subsection{The many names of revision control}
\subsection{$BMM!9$J%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k(B}

%Revision control is a diverse field, so much so that it doesn't
%actually have a single name or acronym.  Here are a few of the more
%common names and acronyms you'll encounter:
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\begin{itemize}
\item $B%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k(B (Revision control (RCS))
\item $B%=%U%H%&%'%"@_Dj%^%M%8%a%s%H$^$?$O@_Dj%^%M%8%a%s%H(B (Software configuration management (SCM), or configuration management)
\item $B%=!<%9%3!<%I%^%M%8%a%s%H(B (Source code management)
\item $B%=!<%9%3!<%I%3%s%H%m!<%k$^$?$O%=!<%9%3%s%H%m!<%k(B (Source code control, or source control)
\item $B%P!<%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k(B (Version control (VCS))
\end{itemize}
%Some people claim that these terms actually have different meanings,
%but in practice they overlap so much that there's no agreed or even
%useful way to tease them apart.
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%\section{A short history of revision control}
\section{$B%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k$NNr;K(B}

%The best known of the old-time revision control tools is SCCS (Source
%Code Control System), which Marc Rochkind wrote at Bell Labs, in the
%early 1970s.  SCCS operated on individual files, and required every
%person working on a project to have access to a shared workspace on a
%single system.  Only one person could modify a file at any time;
%arbitration for access to files was via locks.  It was common for
%people to lock files, and later forget to unlock them, preventing
%anyone else from modifying those files without the help of an
%administrator.

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%Walter Tichy developed a free alternative to SCCS in the early 1980s;
%he called his program RCS (Revison Control System).  Like SCCS, RCS
%required developers to work in a single shared workspace, and to lock
%files to prevent multiple people from modifying them simultaneously.

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%Later in the 1980s, Dick Grune used RCS as a building block for a set
%of shell scripts he initially called cmt, but then renamed to CVS
%(Concurrent Versions System).  The big innovation of CVS was that it
%let developers work simultaneously and somewhat independently in their
%own personal workspaces.  The personal workspaces prevented developers
%from stepping on each other's toes all the time, as was common with
%SCCS and RCS.  Each developer had a copy of every project file, and
%could modify their copies independently.  They had to merge their
%edits prior to committing changes to the central repository.

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%Brian Berliner took Grune's original scripts and rewrote them in~C,
%releasing in 1989 the code that has since developed into the modern
%version of CVS.  CVS subsequently acquired the ability to operate over
%a network connection, giving it a client/server architecture.  CVS's
%architecture is centralised; only the server has a copy of the history
%of the project.  Client workspaces just contain copies of recent
%versions of the project's files, and a little metadata to tell them
%where the server is.  CVS has been enormously successful; it is
%probably the world's most widely used revision control system.

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%In the early 1990s, Sun Microsystems developed an early distributed
%revision control system, called TeamWare.  A TeamWare workspace
%contains a complete copy of the project's history.  TeamWare has no
%notion of a central repository.  (CVS relied upon RCS for its history
%storage; TeamWare used SCCS.)

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%As the 1990s progressed, awareness grew of a number of problems with
%CVS.  It records simultaneous changes to multiple files individually,
%instead of grouping them together as a single logically atomic
%operation.  It does not manage its file hierarchy well; it is easy to
%make a mess of a repository by renaming files and directories.  Worse,
%its source code is difficult to read and maintain, which made the
%``pain level'' of fixing these architectural problems prohibitive.

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%In 2001, Jim Blandy and Karl Fogel, two developers who had worked on
%CVS, started a project to replace it with a tool that would have a
%better architecture and cleaner code.  The result, Subversion, does
%not stray from CVS's centralised client/server model, but it adds
%multi-file atomic commits, better namespace management, and a number
%of other features that make it a generally better tool than CVS.
%Since its initial release, it has rapidly grown in popularity.

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%More or less simultaneously, Graydon Hoare began working on an
%ambitious distributed revision control system that he named Monotone.
%While Monotone addresses many of CVS's design flaws and has a
%peer-to-peer architecture, it goes beyond earlier (and subsequent)
%revision control tools in a number of innovative ways.  It uses
%cryptographic hashes as identifiers, and has an integral notion of
%``trust'' for code from different sources.

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%Mercurial began life in 2005.  While a few aspects of its design are
%influenced by Monotone, Mercurial focuses on ease of use, high
%performance, and scalability to very large projects.

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%\section{Trends in revision control}
\section{$B%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k$N%H%l%s%I(B}

%There has been an unmistakable trend in the development and use of
%revision control tools over the past four decades, as people have
%become familiar with the capabilities of their tools and constrained
%by their limitations.

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%The first generation began by managing single files on individual
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%ad-hoc manual revision control, their locking model and reliance on a
%single computer limited them to small, tightly-knit teams.

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%The second generation loosened these constraints by moving to
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%clients needing to talk to servers very frequently, server scaling
%became an issue for large projects.  An unreliable network connection
%could prevent remote users from being able to talk to the server at
%all.  As open source projects started making read-only access
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%The current generation of revision control tools is peer-to-peer in
%nature.  All of these systems have dropped the dependency on a single
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%data to where it's actually needed.  Collaboration over the Internet
%has moved from constrained by technology to a matter of choice and
%consensus.  Modern tools can operate offline indefinitely and
%autonomously, with a network connection only needed when syncing
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%\section{A few of the advantages of distributed revision control}
\section{$BJ,;6%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k$NMxE@(B}

%Even though distributed revision control tools have for several years
%been as robust and usable as their previous-generation counterparts,
%people using older tools have not yet necessarily woken up to their
%advantages.  There are a number of ways in which distributed tools
%shine relative to centralised ones.

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%For an individual developer, distributed tools are almost always much
%faster than centralised tools.  This is for a simple reason: a
%centralised tool needs to talk over the network for many common
%operations, because most metadata is stored in a single copy on the
%central server.  A distributed tool stores all of its metadata
%locally.  All else being equal, talking over the network adds overhead
%to a centralised tool.  Don't underestimate the value of a snappy,
%responsive tool: you're going to spend a lot of time interacting with
%your revision control software.

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%Distributed tools are indifferent to the vagaries of your server
%infrastructure, again because they replicate metadata to so many
%locations.  If you use a centralised system and your server catches
%fire, you'd better hope that your backup media are reliable, and that
%your last backup was recent and actually worked.  With a distributed
%tool, you have many backups available on every contributor's computer.

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%The reliability of your network will affect distributed tools far less
%than it will centralised tools.  You can't even use a centralised tool
%without a network connection, except for a few highly constrained
%commands.  With a distributed tool, if your network connection goes
%down while you're working, you may not even notice.  The only thing
%you won't be able to do is talk to repositories on other computers,
%something that is relatively rare compared with local operations.  If
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%\subsection{Advantages for open source projects}
\subsection{$B%*!<%W%s%=!<%9%W%m%8%'%/%H$G$NMxE@(B}

%If you take a shine to an open source project and decide that you
%would like to start hacking on it, and that project uses a distributed
%revision control tool, you are at once a peer with the people who
%consider themselves the ``core'' of that project.  If they publish
%their repositories, you can immediately copy their project history,
%start making changes, and record your work, using the same tools in
%the same ways as insiders.  By contrast, with a centralised tool, you
%must use the software in a ``read only'' mode unless someone grants
%you permission to commit changes to their central server.  Until then,
%you won't be able to record changes, and your local modifications will
%be at risk of corruption any time you try to update your client's view
%of the repository.

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%\subsubsection{The forking non-problem}
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%It has been suggested that distributed revision control tools pose
%some sort of risk to open source projects because they make it easy to
%``fork'' the development of a project.  A fork happens when there are
%differences in opinion or attitude between groups of developers that
%cause them to decide that they can't work together any longer.  Each
%side takes a more or less complete copy of the project's source code,
%and goes off in its own direction.

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%Sometimes the camps in a fork decide to reconcile their differences.
%With a centralised revision control system, the \emph{technical}
%process of reconciliation is painful, and has to be performed largely
%by hand.  You have to decide whose revision history is going to
%``win'', and graft the other team's changes into the tree somehow.
%This usually loses some or all of one side's revision history.

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%What distributed tools do with respect to forking is they make forking
%the \emph{only} way to develop a project.  Every single change that
%you make is potentially a fork point.  The great strength of this
%approach is that a distributed revision control tool has to be really
%good at \emph{merging} forks, because forks are absolutely
%fundamental: they happen all the time.

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%If every piece of work that everybody does, all the time, is framed in
%terms of forking and merging, then what the open source world refers
%to as a ``fork'' becomes \emph{purely} a social issue.  If anything,
%distributed tools \emph{lower} the likelihood of a fork:

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%\begin{itemize}
%\item They eliminate the social distinction that centralised tools
%  impose: that between insiders (people with commit access) and
%  outsiders (people without).
%\item They make it easier to reconcile after a social fork, because
%  all that's involved from the perspective of the revision control
%  software is just another merge.
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%Some people resist distributed tools because they want to retain tight
%control over their projects, and they believe that centralised tools
%give them this control.  However, if you're of this belief, and you
%publish your CVS or Subversion repositories publically, there are
%plenty of tools available that can pull out your entire project's
%history (albeit slowly) and recreate it somewhere that you don't
%control.  So while your control in this case is illusory, you are
%forgoing the ability to fluidly collaborate with whatever people feel
%compelled to mirror and fork your history.

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%\subsection{Advantages for commercial projects}
\subsection{$B>&MQ%W%m%8%'%/%H$G$NMxE@(B}

%Many commercial projects are undertaken by teams that are scattered
%across the globe.  Contributors who are far from a central server will
%see slower command execution and perhaps less reliability.  Commercial
%revision control systems attempt to ameliorate these problems with
%remote-site replication add-ons that are typically expensive to buy
%and cantankerous to administer.  A distributed system doesn't suffer
%from these problems in the first place.  Better yet, you can easily
%set up multiple authoritative servers, say one per site, so that
%there's no redundant communication between repositories over expensive
%long-haul network links.

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%Centralised revision control systems tend to have relatively low
%scalability.  It's not unusual for an expensive centralised system to
%fall over under the combined load of just a few dozen concurrent
%users.  Once again, the typical response tends to be an expensive and
%clunky replication facility.  Since the load on a central server---if
%you have one at all---is many times lower with a distributed
%tool (because all of the data is replicated everywhere), a single
%cheap server can handle the needs of a much larger team, and
%replication to balance load becomes a simple matter of scripting.

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%If you have an employee in the field, troubleshooting a problem at a
%customer's site, they'll benefit from distributed revision control.
%The tool will let them generate custom builds, try different fixes in
%isolation from each other, and search efficiently through history for
%the sources of bugs and regressions in the customer's environment, all
%without needing to connect to your company's network.

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%\section{Why choose Mercurial?}
\section{Mercurial$B$rA*$VM}M3(B}

%Mercurial has a unique set of properties that make it a particularly
%good choice as a revision control system.
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%\item It scales excellently.
%\item It is easy to customise.
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%If you are at all familiar with revision control systems, you should
%be able to get up and running with Mercurial in less than five
%minutes.  Even if not, it will take no more than a few minutes
%longer.  Mercurial's command and feature sets are generally uniform
%and consistent, so you can keep track of a few general rules instead
%of a host of exceptions.

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%On a small project, you can start working with Mercurial in moments.
%Creating new changes and branches; transferring changes around
%(whether locally or over a network); and history and status operations
%are all fast.  Mercurial attempts to stay nimble and largely out of
%your way by combining low cognitive overhead with blazingly fast
%operations.

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%The usefulness of Mercurial is not limited to small projects: it is
%used by projects with hundreds to thousands of contributors, each
%containing tens of thousands of files and hundreds of megabytes of
%source code.

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%If the core functionality of Mercurial is not enough for you, it's
%easy to build on.  Mercurial is well suited to scripting tasks, and
%its clean internals and implementation in Python make it easy to add
%features in the form of extensions.  There are a number of popular and
%useful extensions already available, ranging from helping to identify
%bugs to improving performance.

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%\section{Mercurial compared with other tools}
\section{Mercurial$B$HB>$N%D!<%k$NHf3S(B}

%Before you read on, please understand that this section necessarily
%reflects my own experiences, interests, and (dare I say it) biases.  I
%have used every one of the revision control tools listed below, in
%most cases for several years at a time.

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\subsection{Subversion}

%Subversion is a popular revision control tool, developed to replace
%CVS.  It has a centralised client/server architecture.

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%Subversion and Mercurial have similarly named commands for performing
%the same operations, so if you're familiar with one, it is easy to
%learn to use the other.  Both tools are portable to all popular
%operating systems.

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%Subversion lacks a history-aware merge capability, forcing its users
%to manually track exactly which revisions have been merged between
%branches.  If users fail to do this, or make mistakes, they face the
%prospect of manually resolving merges with unnecessary conflicts.
%Subversion also fails to merge changes when files or directories are
%renamed.  Subversion's poor merge support is its single biggest
%weakness.

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%Mercurial has a substantial performance advantage over Subversion on
%every revision control operation I have benchmarked.  I have measured
%its advantage as ranging from a factor of two to a factor of six when
%compared with Subversion~1.4.3's \emph{ra\_local} file store, which is
%the fastest access method available.  In more realistic deployments
%involving a network-based store, Subversion will be at a substantially
%larger disadvantage.  Because many Subversion commands must talk to
%the server and Subversion does not have useful replication facilities,
%server capacity and network bandwidth become bottlenecks for modestly
%large projects.

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%Additionally, Subversion incurs substantial storage overhead to avoid
%network transactions for a few common operations, such as finding
%modified files (\texttt{status}) and displaying modifications against
%the current revision (\texttt{diff}).  As a result, a Subversion
%working copy is often the same size as, or larger than, a Mercurial
%repository and working directory, even though the Mercurial repository
%contains a complete history of the project.

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%Subversion is widely supported by third party tools.  Mercurial
%currently lags considerably in this area.  This gap is closing,
%however, and indeed some of Mercurial's GUI tools now outshine their
%Subversion equivalents.  Like Mercurial, Subversion has an excellent
%user manual.

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%Because Subversion doesn't store revision history on the client, it is
%well suited to managing projects that deal with lots of large, opaque
%binary files.  If you check in fifty revisions to an incompressible
%10MB file, Subversion's client-side space usage stays constant. The
%space used by any distributed SCM will grow rapidly in proportion to
%the number of revisions, because the differences between each revision
%are large.

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%In addition, it's often difficult or, more usually, impossible to
%merge different versions of a binary file.  Subversion's ability to
%let a user lock a file, so that they temporarily have the exclusive
%right to commit changes to it, can be a significant advantage to a
%project where binary files are widely used.

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%Mercurial can import revision history from a Subversion repository.
%It can also export revision history to a Subversion repository.  This
%makes it easy to ``test the waters'' and use Mercurial and Subversion
%in parallel before deciding to switch.  History conversion is
%incremental, so you can perform an initial conversion, then small
%additional conversions afterwards to bring in new changes.

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\subsection{Git}

%Git is a distributed revision control tool that was developed for
%managing the Linux kernel source tree.  Like Mercurial, its early
%design was somewhat influenced by Monotone.

Git$B$O(BLinux$B%+!<%M%k$N%=!<%9%D%j!<$r07$&$?$a$K3+H/$5$l$?J,;6%j%S%8%g%s%3%s(B
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%Git has a very large command set, with version~1.5.0 providing~139
%individual commands.  It has something of a reputation for being
%difficult to learn.  Compared to Git, Mercurial has a strong focus on
%simplicity.

Git$B$OHs>o$KBg5,LO$J%3%^%s%I%;%C%H$r;}$C$F$$$k!%(Bversion~1.5.0$B$G$O(B~139$B$K$b(B
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$BI>H=$5$l$F$$$k!%(BMercurial$B$O(BGit$B$HHf$Y$k$H4J7i$5$K6/$/%U%)!<%+%9$7$F$$$k!%(B

%In terms of performance, Git is extremely fast.  In several cases, it
%is faster than Mercurial, at least on Linux, while Mercurial performs
%better on other operations.  However, on Windows, the performance and
%general level of support that Git provides is, at the time of writing,
%far behind that of Mercurial.

$B@-G=$K4X$7$F$O!$(BGit$B$O6K$a$F9bB.$G$"$k!%(BLinux$B4D6-$G$N%F%9%H$G$O!$$$$/$D$+(B
$B$NA`:n$O(BGit$B$O(BMercurial$B$h$j$b9bB.$G$"$C$?!%$7$+$7(BWindows$B4D6-$G$O!$$3$NK\$N(B
$B<9I.;~E@$G$O!$@-G=$d(BGit$B$NDs6!$9$k5!G=$O(BMercurial$B$KBg$-$/Nt$C$?!%(B

%While a Mercurial repository needs no maintenance, a Git repository
%requires frequent manual ``repacks'' of its metadata.  Without these,
%performance degrades, while space usage grows rapidly.  A server that
%contains many Git repositories that are not rigorously and frequently
%repacked will become heavily disk-bound during backups, and there have
%been instances of daily backups taking far longer than~24 hours as a
%result.  A freshly packed Git repository is slightly smaller than a
%Mercurial repository, but an unpacked repository is several orders of
%magnitude larger.

Mercurial$B%j%]%8%H%j$O%a%s%F%J%s%9$rI,MW$H$7$J$$$,!$(BGit$B%j%]%8%H%j$O$7$P$7(B
$B$P<jF0$G%a%?%G!<%?$N(B``repacks''$B$,I,MW$H$J$k!%$3$l$r9T$o$J$$>l9g!$@-G=$ONt(B
$B2=$7!$I,MW$J5-21NN0h$b5^B.$K3HBg$9$k!%(BGit$B%j%]%8%H%j$r5,B'@5$7$/IQHK$K(B
repack$B$7$J$$%5!<%P$G$O%P%C%/%"%C%W$N:]$K%G%#%9%/;HMQ$,6K$a$FB?$/$J$j!$7k(B
$B2L$H$7$FKhF|$N%P%C%/%"%C%W$K(B~24$B;~4V0J>e$rHq$d$9$3$H$K$J$k!%(B
$B?75,$K(Bpack$B$5$l$?(BGit$B%j%]%8%H%j$O(BMercurial$B%j%]%8%H%j$h$j$d$d>.$5$$(B
$B$,!$(Bunpack$B>uBV$N(BGit$B%j%]%8%H%j$O?tCJBg$-$/$J$k!%(B

%The core of Git is written in C.  Many Git commands are implemented as
%shell or Perl scripts, and the quality of these scripts varies widely.
%I have encountered several instances where scripts charged along
%blindly in the presence of errors that should have been fatal.

Git$B$N%3%"$O(BC$B$G=q$+$l$F$$$k!%(BGit$B%3%^%s%I$NB?$/$O%7%'%k$d(BPerl$B$N%9%/%j%W%H$H(B
$B$7$F<BAu$5$l$F$*$j!$$=$l$i$N%9%/%j%W%H$NIJ<A$OMM!9$G$"$k!%?tEY$K$o$?$C$F(B
$BCWL?E*$J%(%i!<$,$"$k$K$b$+$+$o$i$:!$%9%/%j%W%H$,LULGK!$KF0:n$9$k$3$H$rBN(B
$B83$7$?!%(B

%Mercurial can import revision history from a Git repository.

Mercurial$B$O(BGit$B%j%]%8%H%j$+$i%j%S%8%g%sMzNr$r%$%s%]!<%H$9$k$3$H$,$G$-$k!%(B

\subsection{CVS}

%CVS is probably the most widely used revision control tool in the
%world.  Due to its age and internal untidiness, it has been only
%lightly maintained for many years.

CVS$B$O$*$=$i$/@$3&Cf$G:G$b9-HO$K;HMQ$5$l$F$$$k%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k%D!<(B
$B%k$G$"$m$&!%$=$N8E$5$HFbIt$NMp;($5$N$?$a!$D9$i$/7Z$$%a%s%F%J%s%9$N$_$,9T(B
$B$o$l$F$-$?!%(B

%It has a centralised client/server architecture.  It does not group
%related file changes into atomic commits, making it easy for people to
%``break the build'': one person can successfully commit part of a
%change and then be blocked by the need for a merge, causing other
%people to see only a portion of the work they intended to do.  This
%also affects how you work with project history.  If you want to see
%all of the modifications someone made as part of a task, you will need
%to manually inspect the descriptions and timestamps of the changes
%made to each file involved (if you even know what those files were).

CVS$B$O=8Cf7?$N%/%i%$%"%s%H%5!<%P%"!<%-%F%/%A%c$r;}$D!%(BCVS$B$O!$4XO"$7$?%U%!(B
$B%$%kJQ99$r%0%k!<%W2=$7!$%"%H%_%C%/$K%3%_%C%H$9$k$3$H$,$G$-$J$$!%$3$N$?$a(B
$B%f!<%6$,%3%_%C%H$K$h$C$F%S%k%I$rGK2u$9$k$3$H$,5/$3$k!%C/$+$,JQ99$N0lIt$r(B
$B@.8yN"$K%3%_%C%H$7$?$b$N$N!$;D$j$NItJ,$O%^!<%8$,I,MW$J$?$a%V%m%C%/$5$l$F(B
$B$$$k>l9g!$B>$N%f!<%6$OI,MW$JJQ99$N0lIt$7$+8+$k$3$H$,$G$-$J$$!%F1$8$3$H$O(B
$B%W%m%8%'%/%H$NMzNr$KBP$7$F$b5/$3$k!%C/$+$N:n6H$K4X78$9$kJQ99$9$Y$F$r;2>H(B
$B$7$?$$>l9g!$!J$I$N%U%!%$%k$,2?$J$N$+CN$C$F$$$l$P!K4XO"$9$k3F%U%!%$%k$K$D(B
$B$$$F!$JQ99$N@bL@$H%?%$%`%9%?%s%W$r<+NO$GD4$Y$FJQ99$rFCDj$9$kI,MW$,$"$k!%(B

%CVS has a muddled notion of tags and branches that I will not attempt
%to even describe.  It does not support renaming of files or
%directories well, making it easy to corrupt a repository.  It has
%almost no internal consistency checking capabilities, so it is usually
%not even possible to tell whether or how a repository is corrupt.  I
%would not recommend CVS for any project, existing or new.

CVS$B$N%?%0$H%V%i%s%A$O8l$k5$$5$(5/$-$J$$$h$&$J:.Mp$7$?7A<0$r;}$C$F$$$k!%$-(B
$B$A$s$H$7$?%U%!%$%k$d%G%#%l%/%H%j$N%j%M!<%`$r%5%]!<%H$7$J$$$?$a!$%j%]%8%H(B
$B%j$,4JC1$K2u$l$F$7$^$&!%(B cvs$B$OFbIt$G0l4S@-$r%A%'%C%/$9$k5!G=$,$J$/!$%j%](B
$B%8%H%j$NGKB;$rCN$i$;$k$3$H$b$G$-$J$$!%I.<T$O4{B8$^$?$O?75,$rLd$o$:!$$I$N(B
$B$h$&$J%W%m%8%'%/%H$G$"$C$F$b(BCVS$B$N;HMQ$OA&$a$J$$!%(B

%Mercurial can import CVS revision history.  However, there are a few
%caveats that apply; these are true of every other revision control
%tool's CVS importer, too.  Due to CVS's lack of atomic changes and
%unversioned filesystem hierarchy, it is not possible to reconstruct
%CVS history completely accurately; some guesswork is involved, and
%renames will usually not show up.  Because a lot of advanced CVS
%administration has to be done by hand and is hence error-prone, it's
%common for CVS importers to run into multiple problems with corrupted
%repositories (completely bogus revision timestamps and files that have
%remained locked for over a decade are just two of the less interesting
%problems I can recall from personal experience).

Mercurial$B$O(BCVS$B$N%j%S%8%g%sMzNr$r%$%s%]!<%H$9$k$3$H$,$G$-$k!%$7$+$7B>$N%j(B
$B%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k%D!<%k$N(BCVS$B%$%s%]!<%?!<F1MM$$$/$D$+$N@)8B$b$"$k!%(B
CVS$B$K$O%"%H%_%C%/%A%'%s%8$,$J$/!$%U%!%$%k%7%9%F%`3,AX$r%P!<%8%g%s4IM}$9(B
$B$kG=NO$b$J$$$?$a!$(BCVS$B$NMzNr$r40A4$+$D@53N$K:F8=$9$k$3$H$O$G$-$J$$!%:F8=(B
$B$K$O$$$/$D$+$N?dB,$,F~$j!$%j%M!<%`$ODL>o:F8=$5$l$J$$!%(B
CVS$B$G$O9bEY$J4IM}$NB?$/$,<jF0$G9T$o$l$k$?$a!$4V0c$$$,5/$3$j$d$9$/!$GKB;$7(B
$B$?%j%]%8%H%j$G(BCVS$B%$%s%]!<%?!<$,F1;~$KJ#?t$NLdBj$K8+Iq$o$l$k$3$H$,$h$/$"(B
$B$k!%!JI.<T$NITL{2w$JBN83$G$O!$(B10$BG/0J>e$K$o$?$C$F%m%C%/$5$l$?$^$^$N40A4$K(B
$BL50UL#$J%j%S%8%g%s%?%$%`%9%?%s%W$d%U%!%$%k$r8+$?$3$H$,$"$k!%!K(B

%Mercurial can import revision history from a CVS repository.

Mercurial$B$O(BCVS$B%j%]%8%H%j$+$i%j%S%8%g%sMzNr$r%$%s%]!<%H$9$k$3$H$,$G$-$k!%(B

%\subsection{Commercial tools}
\subsection{$B>&MQ%D!<%k(B}

%Perforce has a centralised client/server architecture, with no
%client-side caching of any data.  Unlike modern revision control
%tools, Perforce requires that a user run a command to inform the
%server about every file they intend to edit.

Perforce$B$O=8Cf7?$N%/%i%$%"%s%H!&%5!<%P%"!<%-%F%/%A%c$r;}$A!$$$$+$J$k%G!<(B
$B%?$b%/%i%$%"%s%HB&$G%-%c%C%7%e$7$J$$!%8=:_$N%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k%D!<%k(B
$B$H$3$H$J$j!$(BPerforce$B$G$O%f!<%6$,$I$N%U%!%$%k$rJT=8$9$k$N$+%5!<%P$KCN$i$;(B
$B$k%3%^%s%I$r<B9T$9$kI,MW$,$"$k!%(B

%The performance of Perforce is quite good for small teams, but it
%falls off rapidly as the number of users grows beyond a few dozen.
%Modestly large Perforce installations require the deployment of
%proxies to cope with the load their users generate.

Perforce$B$N@-G=$O!$>.5,LO$J%A!<%`$G$N:n6H$K$*$$$F$O$+$J$jNI$$!%$7$+$7%f!<(B
$B%6?t$,?t%@!<%90J>e$KA}2C$9$k$K=>$C$F!$5^7c$K0-$/$J$C$F$$$/!%$+$J$jBg5,LO(B
$B$J(BPerforce$B4D6-$G$O!$%f!<%6$NA`:n$K$h$kIi2Y$r7Z8:$9$k$?$a$N%W%m%-%7!<$,I,(B
$BMW$K$J$k!%(B

%\subsection{Choosing a revision control tool}
\subsection{$B%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k%D!<%k$rA*$V(B}

%With the exception of CVS, all of the tools listed above have unique
%strengths that suit them to particular styles of work.  There is no
%single revision control tool that is best in all situations.

CVS$B$r=|$$$F!$>e5-$N%D!<%k$OFCDj$N:n6H%9%?%$%k$K9g$C$?8GM-$N6/$_$r;}$C$F$$(B
$B$k!%$9$Y$F$N>u67$G%Y%9%H$G$"$k%D!<%k$H$$$&$b$N$OB8:_$7$J$$!%(B

%As an example, Subversion is a good choice for working with frequently
%edited binary files, due to its centralised nature and support for
%file locking.  If you're averse to the command line, it currently has
%better GUI support than other free revision control tools.  However,
%its poor merging is a substantial liability for busy projects with
%overlapping development.

$BNc$($P!$IQHK$KJQ99$5$l$k%P%$%J%j%U%!%$%k$r07$&>l9g$O(BSubverrsion$B$rA*$V$N$,(B
$BNI$$!%(BSubversion$B$N=8Cf7?$N@-<A$H%U%!%$%k%m%C%/$N%5%]!<%H$O%P%$%J%j%U%!%$(B
$B%k$N<h$j07$$$KE,$7$F$$$k!%%3%^%s%I%i%$%s$,7y$$$J$i$P!$B>$N%U%j!<%j%S%8%g(B
$B%s4IM}%D!<%k$h$j$bM%$l$?(BGUI$B%5%]!<%H$,$"$k!%$7$+$7%^!<%85!9=$N<e$5$OF1;~$K(B
$BJB9T$7$?3+H/$G$O>/$J$+$i$LLdBj$H$J$j$&$k!%(B

%I personally find Mercurial's properties of simplicity, performance,
%and good merge support to be a compelling combination that has served
%me well for several years.

$B8D?ME*$K$O!$?tG/$K$o$?$C$F!$(BMercurial$B$N4J7i$5!$@-G=!$M%$l$?%^!<%8%5%]!<%H(B
$B$O!$>h$j49$($k$KCM$9$kAH9g$;$@$H46$8$F$$$k!%(B

%\section{Switching from another tool to Mercurial}
\section{$BB>$N%D!<%k$+$i(BMercurial$B$X$N0\9T(B}

%Mercurial is bundled with an extension named \hgext{convert}, which
%can incrementally import revision history from several other revision
%control tools.  By ``incremental'', I mean that you can convert all of
%a project's history to date in one go, then rerun the conversion later
%to obtain new changes that happened after the initial conversion.

Mercurial$B$K$O(B\hgext{convert}$B$H$$$&3HD%$,F1:-$5$l$F$$$k!%$3$N3HD%$O%j%S%8%g(B
$B%sMzNr$rB>$N%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k%D!<%k$+$i%$%s%/%j%a%s%?%k$K%$%s%]!<%H(B
$B$9$k!%!V%$%s%/%j%a%s%?%k!W$H$$$&$N$O!$$^$:%W%m%8%'%/%H$NMzNr$9$Y$F$rJQ49(B
$B$7$?8e$G!$85$N%j%]%8%H%j$K5/$-$?JQ99$r$5$i$KJQ49$7$F<h$j9~$a$k$H$$$&0UL#(B
$B$G$"$k!%(B

%The revision control tools supported by \hgext{convert} are as
%follows:

\hgext{convert}$B$O<!$N%j%S%8%g%s%3%s%H%m!<%k%D!<%k$r%5%]!<%H$9$k(B:
\begin{itemize}
\item Subversion
\item CVS
\item Git
\item Darcs
\end{itemize}

%In addition, \hgext{convert} can export changes from Mercurial to
%Subversion.  This makes it possible to try Subversion and Mercurial in
%parallel before committing to a switchover, without risking the loss
%of any work.

$B2C$($F!$(B\hgext{convert}$B$O(BMercurial$B$+$i(BSubversion$B$KJQ99$r%(%/%9%]!<%H$9$k(B
$B$3$H$,$G$-$k!%$3$l$K$h$j!$(BSubversion$B$+$i(BMercurial$B$K@ZBX$($kA0$K!$9T$C$?:n(B
$B6H$N7k2L$r<:$&$3$H$J$/!$N><T$rJB9T$7$F;n$9$3$H$,$G$-$k!%(B

%The \hgxcmd{conver}{convert} command is easy to use.  Simply point it
%at the path or URL of the source repository, optionally give it the
%name of the destination repository, and it will start working.  After
%the initial conversion, just run the same command again to import new
%changes.

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$B$N%Q%9$d(BURL$B$rEO$9$@$1$G!$;HMQ2DG=$J%j%]%8%H%j$r:n@.$9$k!%$^$?!$%*%W%7%g%s(B
$B$GJQ498e$N%j%]%8%H%j$NL>A0$rEO$9$3$H$b$G$-$k!%:G=i$NJQ498e!$F1$8%3%^%s%I(B
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