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Index
Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
Preface
Technical Storytelling Thank You for Supporting Mercurial Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us This Book Is Free Acknowledgments
1. A Brief History of Revision Control
Why Revision Control? Why Mercurial?
Why Use Revision Control? The Many Names of Revision Control
This Book Is a Work in Progress About the Examples in This Book Trends in the Field A Few Advantages of Distributed Revision Control
Advantages for Open Source Projects
The forking non-problem
Advantages for Commercial Projects
Why Choose Mercurial? Mercurial Compared with Other Tools
Subversion Git CVS Commercial Tools Choosing a Revision Control Tool
Switching from Another Tool to Mercurial A Short History of Revision Control
2. A Tour of Mercurial: The Basics
Installing Mercurial on Your System
Windows Mac OS X Linux Solaris
Getting Started
Built-In Help
Working with a Repository
Making a Local Copy of a Repository What’s in a Repository?
A Tour Through History
Changesets, Revisions, and Talking to Other People Viewing Specific Revisions More Detailed Information
All About Command Options Making and Reviewing Changes Recording Changes in a New Changeset
Setting Up a Username
Creating a Mercurial configuration file Choosing a username
Writing a Commit Message Writing a Good Commit Message Aborting a Commit Admiring Our New Handiwork
Sharing Changes
Pulling Changes from Another Repository Updating the Working Directory Pushing Changes to Another Repository Default Locations Sharing Changes over a Network
Starting a New Project
3. A Tour of Mercurial: Merging Work
Merging Streams of Work
Head Changesets Performing the Merge Committing the Results of the Merge
Merging Conflicting Changes
Using a Graphical Merge Tool A Worked Example
Simplifying the Pull-Merge-Commit Sequence Renaming, Copying, and Merging
4. Behind the Scenes
Mercurial’s Historical Record
Tracking the History of a Single File Managing Tracked Files Recording Changeset Information Relationships Between Revisions
Safe, Efficient Storage
Efficient Storage Safe Operation Fast Retrieval Identification and Strong Integrity
Revision History, Branching, and Merging The Working Directory
What Happens When You Commit Creating a New Head Merging Changes Merging and Renames
Other Interesting Design Features
Clever Compression
Network recompression
Read/Write Ordering and Atomicity Concurrent Access
Safe dirstate access
Avoiding Seeks Other Contents of the Dirstate
5. Mercurial in Daily Use
Telling Mercurial Which Files to Track
Explicit Versus Implicit File Naming Mercurial Tracks Files, Not Directories
How to Stop Tracking a File
Removing a File Does Not Affect Its History Missing Files