hg clone

[Soh Tk-r28629]

> -----Original Message-----
> > Nevermind the update, but any particular reasons we have to mkdir,
> > cd & init explicitly?
> 
> a) it makes it easy to import an existing project
> b) there's no concept of repository names in Mercurial
> c) if they did, they'd tend to collide or conflict in annoying ways
> d) we'd need to add an option to not create it in a subdirectory
> 
> I'd probably accept a -D <name> switch to init to do the mkdir && cd

I understand your concerns. Actually, all we need is for clone to be a canned command that does the three (or four, optionally) steps, nothing more than something like a shell script or alias would do. No change to the underlying hg engine.

Having said that, I could have made an alias or script to do the same thing, but thought it should be built in if users find it handy.