First time user - can't clone

[Patrick Mézard]

Paul Moore a écrit :
> On 16/11/2007, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
>> I started using mercurial a few weeks ago for a small Python module I hope
>> to distribute because it was so easy to start using (hg add - voila!).  Most
>> everything has been working okay.  Today I tried to export it by running hg
>> serve.  That seems to make the repository available through the web (try
>> visiting http://montanaro.dyndns.org:8000/ nights or weekends).  I can't
>> seem to clone from it though.  I installed hg 0.9.5 at work and gave it a try:
> [...]
>> What, if anything, did I do wrong?
> 
> I just had a play, and it looks like hg clone --pull
> http://montanaro.dyndns.org:8000/ works.
> 
> As to why --pull isn't the default for this case, or how it should be
> documented to make it easier to find, I don't know...

Do you need --pull ?
I have no problem cloning Skip repository under MacOSX without --pull.