We have been told by church leaders, sociologists, biologists, and family researchers for years how detrimental pornography is to an individual, his family, and community. Despite these warnings, pornography is a 1.8 billion dollar industry in the US.

The Sutherland Institute has released a study that synthesizes all available research on pornography. It finds that:

THE FAMILY AND PORNOGRAPHY

Like everyone who with a couple years of using a digital camera, I’ve got a lot of pictures on my hard drive. And with a lot of pictures, came a lot of duplicates. Between a couple backups that got merged together and taking four pictures of each scene, I mean a LOT of duplicates.

There is a lot that the base Mercurial can do, but a robust extension mechanism allows all kinds of nice enhancements. We use BigFiles, and Forest, but there is lots more you can do. All of the publicly available extensions are listed at http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/UsingExtensions. Here are some of my favorite mercurial extensions and how I use them.

Note: My company recently started using Mercurial. I wrote this article to provide some education on the value of branches.

There have been some emails flying around discussing making branches so we can “isolate changes.” I thought some discussion of what a branch is and what it is good for was warranted.