annotate help/topics/10.txt @ 532:06507a59f2b8 easyhg_v1.1

This will do for the Merge topic
author Chris Cannam
date Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:24:47 +0000
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Chris@494 1 {Opening and initialising things}
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Chris@494 3 Someone gave me a repository URL and asked me to clone it
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Chris@494 5 A Mercurial repository location is usually described by a URL, like
Chris@494 6 that of a website.
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Chris@494 8 For example, the URL for the repository containing the source code for
Chris@494 9 EasyMercurial itself is @https://bitbucket.org/cannam/easyhg@.
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Chris@494 11 To get a copy of the files in a repository, you need to _clone_ the
Chris@494 12 repository from the remote URL into a folder on your own computer. To
Chris@494 13 do this,
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Chris@494 15 *1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open*
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Chris@495 17 #openremote50
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Chris@495 19 *2. Select "Remote repository" as the thing you want to open*
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Chris@494 21 *3. Enter the repository URL into the URL field*
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Chris@494 23 *4. Give the name of a folder on your local computer to clone into* --
Chris@494 24 this folder will be created for you, so it shouldn't be one that already
Chris@494 25 exists
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Chris@494 27 *5. Click OK*
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Chris@494 29 If the remote repository has restricted access, you may be asked to
Chris@494 30 provide a username and password to log in to the server it is hosted
Chris@494 31 on. If the repository is large, you may have to wait a while for all the
Chris@494 32 data to be transferred.
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Chris@494 34 Provided the clone has been successful, you should now have a local
Chris@495 35 repository to start working in.
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Chris@495 37 * Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is *hg clone*