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Mercurial book is now in production, and a little gift

May 15th, 2009 by Bryan O'Sullivan

As of about a week ago, O’Reilly’s production team has the manuscript of the Mercurial book. Thanks to everyone who has submitted so many comments during the writing process!

If you watch the Mercurial development tree, you’ll have noticed that over the past few years, I’ve done almost no work on Mercurial itself. The software has a healthy community of able and enthusiastic contributors, and I’ve enjoyed focusing my energy elsewhere.

But I did fire a Parthian shot a few days ago: I improved Mercurial’s I/O performance on Windows, with speedups of up to a factor of 5 for some common operations. That change should be present in the July release. Windows users, enjoy!

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5 Responses to “Mercurial book is now in production, and a little gift”

  1. on 15 May 2009 at 11:241 gabriel

    Hey Bos, you got a nice plug in the Accu magazine for your Mercurial book : )

    -Gabs

  2. on 15 May 2009 at 12:402 Stu

    Wow, I hope this stops it timing out when I use freehg from windows…

  3. on 15 May 2009 at 12:513 Dirkjan Ochtman

    Stu: that has likely more to do with freehg than with Windows. I’d recommend you use bitbucket instead.

  4. on 15 May 2009 at 15:454 Keith Fahlgren

    Here’s a present for you, a shiny cover:
    http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9780596800673/lrg.jpg (also thumb.gif)

  5. on 07 Jun 2009 at 03:105 Brendan

    Parthian shot? Rats, I thought it heralded the return of the prodigal son.

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