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