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Show cancel button with progress bar only when running an operation that it makes sense to cancel (we don't really want people cancelling e.g. initial folder scan because it would leave things in an inconsistent state)
author | Chris Cannam |
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date | Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:53:54 +0000 |
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="help.css"/> <h2>Someone gave me a repository URL and asked me to clone it</h2> <p>A Mercurial repository location is usually described by a URL, like that of a website.</p> <p>For example, the URL for the repository containing the source code for EasyMercurial itself is <code>https://bitbucket.org/cannam/easyhg</code>.</p> <p>To get a copy of the files in a repository, you need to <i>clone</i> the repository from the remote URL into a folder on your own computer. To do this,</p> <p><b>1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open</b></p> <p><center><img src="images/openremote50.png"></center></p> <p><b>2. Select “Remote repository” as the thing you want to open</b></p> <p><b>3. Enter the repository URL into the URL field</b></p> <p><b>4. Give the name of a folder on your local computer to clone into</b> – this folder will be created for you, so it shouldn't be one that already exists</p> <p><b>5. Click OK</b></p> <p>If the remote repository has restricted access, you may be asked to provide a username and password to log in to the server it is hosted on. If the repository is large, you may have to wait a while for all the data to be transferred.</p> <p>Provided the clone has been successful, you should now have a local repository to start working in. <ul><li>Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is <b>hg clone</b></li></ul>