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

[Alberto Ridolfi]

Thanks everybody for the help and for the insights!

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Angel Ezquerra
<angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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