Mercurial `hg clone` but ignoring all subrepos?

Question

Is there a way to clone a repo that comes with subrepos, but without having Mercurial pull all the subrepos?

It appears that while hg clone -U can be used t

Answer 1

This should do what you want:

REM Take a new clone, but do not update working directory
hg clone --noupdate %REPO_PATH% %DESTINATION%

REM Update working directory but exclude the certain subprojects
hg revert --all --rev %BRANCH% --exclude %SUBREPO_PATH_1% --exclude %SUBREPO_PATH_2%