“hg archive” command description

[Bob Hood]

On 2/24/2014 4:57 AM, Pietro Moras wrote:
>
> Any idea where to find some valid description of the “hg archive” command?
> What's its rationale, its purpose, and detailed operative description?
> Unfortunately I've found the related original Mercurial documentation
> particularly poor, and the “Mercurial – The Definitive Guide” book
> completely absent.
>

It's function is similar to the Subversion "export" command.  It "exports" a
copy of your local working Mercurial folder without the SCM bookkeeping data. 
It ends up being just a plain folder with unversioned files.