Is the book "Mercurial: The Definitive Guide" up to date?

[Angel Ezquerra]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Kevin Bullock
<kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org> wrote:
> On 11 Feb 2014, at 9:59 PM, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2014-02-11 at 20:57 -0200, Alberto Ridolfi wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am a Mercurial user with basic knowledge. I want to study Mercurial
>>> deeper and eventually master it.
>>>
>>> I'm thinking about studying the book "Mercurial: The Definitive Guide"
>>> by Bryan O'Sullivan, but that book was published in June 2009. Since
>>> almost 5 years have passed since the publishing of that book, and I
>>> also have the impression that Mercurial changed a lot in those years,
>>> do anyone knows if that book is a nice option for mastering Mercurial
>>> and becoming an expert in it in 2014?
>>
>> It is quite old, but still serviceable.
>>
>> Major things it's missing:
>>
>> - named branches
>
> Not actually: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/managing-releases-and-branchy-development.html#id386031

Even though branches are mentioned, that sections starts with the
following advice:

"In most instances, isolating branches in repositories is the right approach."

IMHO that is not true anymore.

Cheers,

Angel