[hgbook ver. 2015] Updated version of the Mercurial book

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Tue Feb 21 16:59:57 UTC 2023


On 2/21/23 17:05, PIERRE AUGIER wrote:
> As already said, I worked on a new version of the Mercurial book. It is now in a better shape!
>
> For now, the repository is hosted on Github https://github.com/paugier/mercurial-jupyterbook. Of course it would make more sense to have this project hosted on foss.heptapod.


That would be great to have this on foss. I think you already have the 
necessary right to import it ;-)


Note that foss is currently getting "gitlab pages" support and this 
could be a good usecase.

> The build system is completely different (no more separated .rst + .t files nor complicated Makefiles). The sources are IMHO much cleaner and the result is a bit prettier.


I see you used jupited notebooks. Which kind of "kernel" did you use ?


> The result can be read on readthedocs https://mercurial-book.readthedocs.io
>
> I didn't try to use asciidag (an unmaintained Sphinx extension based on TikZ/LaTeX) so there are few graphs that are not rendered.
>
> The content is for some chapters quite outdated (for example about rollback, mq, etc.). I guess it could be nice to have a new version with updated content but it would require a collective effort.


Yeah, mq is quite legacy at this point and any mention of rollback 
should be cast away.

-- 

Pierre-Yves David



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