You've just
cloned a remote repo to your local system,
and we're ready to work! Notice that BitKeeper has placed an overlay icon
on the folder to show that this is a BitKeeper repository. When working
within the Explorer plugin, BitKeeper uses several icon overlays to give
you an idea of what you're looking at with a glance.
Now, this demo repo was cloned from bkbits.net, and we don't have permission
write back to the parent repository, so the next thing we want to do is make
another clone of our new repo to the same directory so that we can make some
changes.
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Right-click on the white background of your Explorer window.
Click BitKeeper -> Clone this Repository...
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You'll see the familiar clone dialog pop up. Notice that the dialog
has already filled in the name of the repo we are cloning and a suggestion
for the copy of the repo. We'll just keep the defaults for now and make a
new
bk_demo_copy
directory to play in. You will see the command window fly
by again as the repo is copied. Once it's done you can close the command
window, and your directory should look like this:
You should now have a directory with two repos:
bk_demo
and
bk_demo_copy.
Each repo knows about where it came from and who its parent is.
bk_demo_copy
knows that
bk_demo
is its parent, and that's where it will pull its updates
from and send its changes to.
bk_demo
knows that
http://bkdemo.bkbits.net/bk_demo
is its parent, and that is where it will pull
updates from.
Next Step:
Pulling changes from a parent