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Fix #356, Failed to open existing repository when using open "File Folder"
author | Chris Cannam |
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date | Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:30:46 +0000 |
parents | 21aa41b62c3a |
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Chris@494 | 1 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help.css"/> |
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Chris@494 | 4 <h2>Someone gave me a repository URL and asked me to clone it</h2> |
Chris@494 | 5 |
Chris@494 | 6 <p>A Mercurial repository location is usually described by a URL, like |
Chris@494 | 7 that of a website.</p> |
Chris@494 | 8 |
Chris@494 | 9 <p>For example, the URL for the repository containing the source code for |
Chris@494 | 10 EasyMercurial itself is <code>https://bitbucket.org/cannam/easyhg</code>.</p> |
Chris@494 | 11 |
Chris@494 | 12 <p>To get a copy of the files in a repository, you need to <i>clone</i> the |
Chris@494 | 13 repository from the remote URL into a folder on your own computer. To |
Chris@494 | 14 do this,</p> |
Chris@494 | 15 |
Chris@495 | 16 <p><b>1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open</b></p> |
Chris@494 | 17 |
Chris@494 | 18 <p><center><img src="images/openremote50.png"></center></p> |
Chris@494 | 19 |
Chris@495 | 20 <p><b>2. Select “Remote repository” as the thing you want to open</b></p> |
Chris@494 | 21 |
Chris@495 | 22 <p><b>3. Enter the repository URL into the URL field</b></p> |
Chris@494 | 23 |
Chris@495 | 24 <p><b>4. Give the name of a folder on your local computer to clone into</b> – |
Chris@494 | 25 this folder will be created for you, so it shouldn't be one that already |
Chris@494 | 26 exists</p> |
Chris@494 | 27 |
Chris@495 | 28 <p><b>5. Click OK</b></p> |
Chris@494 | 29 |
Chris@494 | 30 <p>If the remote repository has restricted access, you may be asked to |
Chris@494 | 31 provide a username and password to log in to the server it is hosted |
Chris@494 | 32 on. If the repository is large, you may have to wait a while for all the |
Chris@494 | 33 data to be transferred.</p> |
Chris@494 | 34 |
Chris@494 | 35 <p>Provided the clone has been successful, you should now have a local |
Chris@495 | 36 repository to start working in. |
Chris@495 | 37 <ul><li>Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is <b>hg clone</b></li></ul> |