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clone: allow local cloning to create more than one level of directories

I figure cloning a remote repository is more common, thus it's more likely that
some people might be relying on the less restrictive behavior.  Additionally,
`hg init` will also create more than one level of missing directories.

I also have a use case for reading the subrepos from .hgsub, and sharing them
into the normal nested location on the server.  SCM Manager doesn't host
subrepos in the normal nested location, which is nice for deduplicating the
repository data, but confuses `hg verify`.  Some of the subrepos are in the root
of the repositories, while others are one or two directories deep.  So not
having to build up the parent path first is desirable.

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 hg-ssh
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restricted ssh login shell for Mercurial
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:Author:         Thomas Arendsen Hein <[e-mail]>
:Organization:   Mercurial
:Manual section: 8
:Manual group:   Mercurial Manual

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Synopsis
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**hg-ssh** repositories...

Description
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**hg-ssh** is a wrapper for ssh access to a limited set of mercurial repos.

To be used in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys with the "command" option, see sshd(8):
command="hg-ssh path/to/repo1 /path/to/repo2 ~/repo3 ~user/repo4" ssh-dss ...
(probably together with these other useful options:
no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding)

This allows pull/push over ssh from/to the repositories given as arguments.

If all your repositories are subdirectories of a common directory, you can
allow shorter paths with:
command="cd path/to/my/repositories && hg-ssh repo1 subdir/repo2"

You can use pattern matching of your normal shell, e.g.:
command="cd repos && hg-ssh user/thomas/* projects/{mercurial,foo}"

You can also add a --read-only flag to allow read-only access to a key, e.g.:
command="hg-ssh --read-only repos/\*"

Bugs
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Probably lots, please post them to the mailing list (see Resources_
below) when you find them.

See Also
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|hg(1)|_

Author
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Written by Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>

Resources
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Main Web Site: https://mercurial-scm.org/

Source code repository: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg

Mailing list: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/mailman/listinfo/mercurial/

Copying
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Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Matt Mackall.
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General
Public License version 2 or any later version.

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