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== Tutorial - cloning a repository ==

We have followed TutorialInstall to install ["Mercurial"] already, right? Good!

In ["Mercurial"], we do all of our work inside a ["Repository"]. A ["Repository"] is a directory that contains all of the source files that we want to keep history of, along with complete histories of those source files.

The easiest way to get started with ["Mercurial"] is to use a ["Repository"] that already contains some files and some history.

To do this, we use the {{{clone}}} command. This makes a ["Clone"] of a ["Repository"]; it makes a complete copy of another ["Repository"] so that we will have our own local, private one to work in.

Let's clone a small "hello, world" repository hosted at selenic.com:

{{{
 $ hg clone http://www.selenic.com/repo/hello my-hello
}}}

If all goes well, the {{{clone}}} command prints this:

{{{
 requesting all changes
 adding changesets
 adding manifests
 adding file changes
 added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
}}}

We should now find a directory called {{{my-hello}}} in our current directory:

{{{
 $ ls
 my-hello
}}}

Inside the {{{my-hello}}} directory, we should find some files:

{{{
 $ ls my-hello
 Makefile hello.c
}}}

These files are exact copies of the files in the ["Repository"] we just ["Clone"]d.

'''Note''': in ["Mercurial"], each ["Repository"] is self-contained. When you ["Clone"] a ["Repository"], the new ["Repository"] becomes an exact copy of the existing one at the time of the ["Clone"], but subsequent changes in either one ''will not show up'' in the other unless you explicitly transfer them.

At this point, we can start examining some of the history of our new ["Repository"], by continuing to TutorialHistory.
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TutorialClone (last edited 2015-10-28 15:22:27 by alishamsulqamar)