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* Added setting to specify that diff command should be run once for each selected file, rather than passing all file names to diff command (p4merge doesn't like being given many files)

{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*