One of the things that I find myself needing to do often is clone a repository from our mercurial server. All of our repositories are under a directory on the server that is accessibel through ssh, so I wanted to be able to type in a command on the command line with the name of the remote reposirotry and, optionally, the name of the local clone. If I leave out the second argument, it creates a local clone with the same name.

So I wrote a small function that I put in my .profile (you can add it ...