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view help/a-10.html @ 540:fc2df97920e8 fswatcher
Introduce FsWatcher into main window (though it isn't fully rigged up yet)
author | Chris Cannam |
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date | Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:29:06 +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>