Instant Mercurial Distributed SCM Essentials How-to

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. This book has a simplified, recipe-based approach, which shows the essential features of Mercurial SCM for software configuration engineers/programmers using Mercurial or another version control system of a similar kind.Instant Mercurial SCM Essentials How-to is aimed at software developers already familiar with version control but new to the Mercurial open source DVCS, who want to master both the basics and some very advanced features of the tool. You are expected to be familiar at either working with the console in Windows, or the Unix command line in Linux or Mac OS X, as the examples are command-line based.