Cloning mercurial repo to the remote host

Question

Mercurial supports push-style cloning of repositories to remote hosts, however newly cloned repositories don\'t contain working copies. Is there any \'hidden\' option to make me

Answer 1

There is no hidden option to force an update of a remote repository. Only one condition determines whether the update is performed (e.g., line 239 of hg.py in the Mercurial 1.0.1 source):

if dest_repo.local():

If you're going to do some work in the working copy, you're going to log in anyway, at which point running "hg update" is pretty easy, so there's not much motivation to relax the current constraint on remote clones.