Mercurial clone from a branch

We have a repository with three named branches, I wanted to clone one of the branches. Is there a mercurial command to do that? If I provide the path (of branch) with hg clone I get 404 error.

Solution 1:

hg clone http://your/repo -r branchname should do the trick.

Solution 2:

Benjamin's right. But is that really what you want to do? In particular, you'll only get the changesets needed to make up that branch, and nothing else - and that would, for example, prevent you from pulling changesets in from the trunk or other branches. You might well be better off just cloning the entire repository and then simply working in the branch you are interested in; this will let you keep your repository in sync with the one you're pulling from more easily.

Solution 3:

hg clone <URL> -b BRANCHNAME clone single branch, as requested

Solution 4:

I know that this post is very old, but I had the same question. I found this trick:

hg clone /path/to/your/repo -r 0
hg pull -u -b branchname