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Some work on Linux packaging
author | Chris Cannam |
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date | Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:16:11 +0000 |
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{Opening and initialising things} Someone gave me a repository URL and asked me to clone it A Mercurial repository location is usually described by a URL, like that of a website. For example, the URL for the repository containing the source code for EasyMercurial itself is @https://bitbucket.org/cannam/easyhg@. To get a copy of the files in a repository, you need to _clone_ the repository from the remote URL into a folder on your own computer. To do this, *1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open* #openremote50 *2. Select "Remote repository" as the thing you want to open* *3. Enter the repository URL into the URL field* *4. Give the name of a folder on your local computer to clone into* -- this folder will be created for you, so it shouldn't be one that already exists *5. Click OK* 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. Provided the clone has been successful, you should now have a local repository to start working in. * Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is *hg clone*