Chris@494: {Opening and initialising things} Chris@494: Chris@494: Someone gave me a repository URL and asked me to clone it Chris@494: Chris@494: A Mercurial repository location is usually described by a URL, like Chris@494: that of a website. Chris@494: Chris@494: For example, the URL for the repository containing the source code for Chris@494: EasyMercurial itself is @https://bitbucket.org/cannam/easyhg@. Chris@494: Chris@494: To get a copy of the files in a repository, you need to _clone_ the Chris@494: repository from the remote URL into a folder on your own computer. To Chris@494: do this, Chris@494: Chris@494: *1. Click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open* Chris@494: Chris@495: #openremote50 Chris@494: Chris@495: *2. Select "Remote repository" as the thing you want to open* Chris@494: Chris@494: *3. Enter the repository URL into the URL field* Chris@494: Chris@494: *4. Give the name of a folder on your local computer to clone into* -- Chris@494: this folder will be created for you, so it shouldn't be one that already Chris@494: exists Chris@494: Chris@494: *5. Click OK* Chris@494: Chris@494: If the remote repository has restricted access, you may be asked to Chris@494: provide a username and password to log in to the server it is hosted Chris@494: on. If the repository is large, you may have to wait a while for all the Chris@494: data to be transferred. Chris@494: Chris@494: Provided the clone has been successful, you should now have a local Chris@495: repository to start working in. Chris@494: Chris@495: * Note: the equivalent Mercurial command for this is *hg clone*