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*