Archiving Mercurial Repositories

When maintaining a local archive of a Mercurial repository, use hg clone --noupdate. It works in a similar way to git clone --mirror.

• There's no working directory, saving disk space. In Git terminology, the repository is "headless".
• hg pull can be used to pull in new updates.

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