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Let's clone a small "hello, world" repository hosted at selenic.com: |
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| $ hg clone http://selenic.com/hg my-hg-clone | $ hg clone http://www.selenic.com/repo/hello my-hello }}} |
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| }}} to try things out whith an already working repository. WARNING, this repository is not the smallest thing out there.] If all goes well, the {{{clone}}} command prints no output. We should now find a directory called {{{my-hello}}} in our current directory: |
If all goes well, the {{{clone}}} command prints this: |
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| $ ls my-hello |
requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files }}} |
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| }}} Inside the {{{my-hello}}} directory, we'll find some files: |
We should now find a directory called {{{my-hello}}} in our current directory: |
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| '''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. | '''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. |
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.