Someone gave me a repository URL and asked me to clone it

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A Mercurial repository location is usually described by a URL, like Chris@494: that of a website.

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For example, the URL for the repository containing the source code for Chris@494: EasyMercurial itself is https://bitbucket.org/cannam/easyhg.

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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,

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1. click the Open toolbar button or use File -> Open

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2. select “Remote Repository” as the thing you want to open

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3. enter the repository URL into the URL field

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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

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5. click OK

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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.

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Provided the clone has been successful, you should now have a local Chris@494: repository to work in.

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