Newbie question--how to clone hg itself?

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Chris Stromberger
<chris.stromberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm browsing around the wiki download pages, and I don't see an obvious way
> to clone the latest release.  I see this:
>
> "once you have Mercurial up and running you can get the source by cloning a
> repository."
>
> But it doesn't really help this newbie.  I am looking for something that
> seems to be present on all the svn google code sites I've used, like this:
>
> Use this command to anonymously check out the latest project source code:
>
> # Non-members may check out a read-only working copy anonymously over HTTP.
> svn checkout http://boto.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ boto-read-only
>
> Which allows me to simply copy and paste that command into my terminal and
> I'm good.
>
> What is the equivalent for grabbing the latest hg release?

hg clone http://selenic.com/hg

(see hg help clone for details)

If you just want the source without the history, there should be a
link to download the archive.

regards,

Benoit