n00b alert : Quickest way to clone a repo?

[Benoît Allard]

> What if I just want to grab the top of the repo, and start working from there? Is there an option to clone to discard previous history and get me the latest revision? Is clone the right command?

Or ask the maintainer to enable archives:

--hgrc--

[web]
allow_archive = zip bz2 gz
--hgrc--

and point your browser to 
http://hg.scalaforge.org/scala/docs/archive/tip.zip

You'll only get the latest state of the files without history. But that 
way, you won't be able to push your modifications, as you just got the 
files and not the repository.
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