Bryan O'Sullivan

Mercurial: The Definitive Guide (eBook, PDF)

The Definitive Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This instructive book takes you step by step through ways to track, merge, and manage both open source and commercial software projects with Mercurial, using Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and other systems. Mercurial is the easiest system to learn when it comes to distributed revision control. And it's a very flexible tool that's ideal whether you're a lone programmer working on a small project, or part of a huge team dealing with thousands of files.Mercurial permits a countless variety of development and collaboration methods, and this book offers several concrete suggestions to get you started. This guide will help you:Learn the basics of working with a repository, changesets, and revisionsMerge changes from separate repositoriesSet up Mercurial to work with files on a daily basis, including which ones to trackGet examples and tools for setting up various workflow modelsManage a project that's making progress on multiple fronts at onceFind and fix mistakes by isolating problem sourcesUse hooks to perform actions automatically in response to repository eventsCustomize the output of MercurialMercurial: The Definitive Guide maintains a strong focus on simplicity to help you learn Mercurial quickly and thoroughly.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780596551292
• Artikelnr.: 52963184

Autorenporträt

Bryan O'Sullivan is an Irish writer and developer who works with distributed systems, open source software, and programming languages. He wrote the award-winning O'Reilly title Real World Haskell. He has made significant contributions to the popular Mercurial revision control system, and to a number of other open source projects. He lives in San Francisco with his family. Whenever he can, he runs off to climb rocks.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents: Chapter 1 A Brief History of Revision Control Why Revision Control? Why Mercurial? This Book Is a Work in Progress About the Examples in This Book Trends in the Field A Few Advantages of Distributed Revision Control Why Choose Mercurial? Mercurial Compared with Other Tools Switching from Another Tool to Mercurial A Short History of Revision Control Chapter 2 A Tour of Mercurial: The Basics Installing Mercurial on Your System Getting Started Working with a Repository A Tour Through History All About Command Options Making and Reviewing Changes Recording Changes in a New Changeset Sharing Changes Starting a New Project Chapter 3 A Tour of Mercurial: Merging Work Merging Streams of Work Merging Conflicting Changes Simplifying the Pull-Merge-Commit Sequence Renaming, Copying, and Merging Chapter 4 Behind the Scenes Mercurial s Historical Record Safe, Efficient Storage Revision History, Branching, and Merging The Working Directory Other Interesting Design Features Chapter 5 Mercurial in Daily Use Telling Mercurial Which Files to Track How to Stop Tracking a File Copying Files Renaming Files Recovering from Mistakes Dealing with Tricky Merges More Useful Diffs Which Files to Manage, and Which to Avoid Backups and Mirroring Chapter 6 Collaborating with Other People Mercurial s Web Interface Collaboration Models The Technical Side of Sharing Informal Sharing with hg serve Using the Secure Shell Protocol Serving Over HTTP Using CGI System-Wide Configuration Chapter 7 Filenames and Pattern Matching Simple File Naming Running Commands Without Any Filenames Telling You What s Going On Using Patterns to Identify Files Filtering Files Permanently Ignoring Unwanted Files and Directories Case Sensitivity Chapter 8 Managing Releases and Branchy Development Giving a Persistent Name to a Revision The Flow of Changes: Big Picture Versus Little Picture Managing Big-Picture Branches in Repositories Don t Repeat Yourself: Merging Across Branches Naming Branches Within One Repository Dealing with Multiple Named Branches in a Repository Branch Names and Merging Branch Naming Is Generally Useful Chapter 9 Finding and Fixing Mistakes Erasing Local History Reverting the Mistaken Change Dealing with Committed Changes Changes That Should Never Have Been Finding the Source of a Bug Tips for Finding Bugs Effectively Chapter 10 Handling Repository Events with Hooks An Overview of Hooks in Mercurial Hooks and Security A Short Tutorial on Using Hooks Writing Your Own Hooks Some Hook Examples Bundled Hooks Information for Writers of Hooks Hook Reference Chapter 11 ...

Rezensionen

"Ein verständlich und gut strukturiertes Buch[...]. Es wird den Besonderheiten von Mercurial gerecht und ermöglicht so relativ schnell die Beantwortung der Frage, welches System man für welche Anwendung heranziehen sollte." -- IT-Stammtisch Darmstadt, Januar 2010