# HG changeset patch
# User Alexis S. L. Carvalho <alexis@cecm.usp.br>
# Date 1188189875 10800
# Node ID 76c4cadb49fc0e9555078dbc0a204fa98a3a4ebc
# Parent  20817af258d87f0262a9c4f933ee134689d40b3c
clone: remove "file://" before making the path absolute

This avoids writing bogus paths to .hgrc.  Fixes issue695.

diff --git a/mercurial/hg.py b/mercurial/hg.py
--- a/mercurial/hg.py
+++ b/mercurial/hg.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ def clone(ui, source, dest=None, pull=Fa
     abspath = origsource
     copy = False
     if src_repo.local() and islocal(dest):
-        abspath = os.path.abspath(origsource)
+        abspath = os.path.abspath(util.drop_scheme('file', origsource))
         copy = not pull and not rev
 
     src_lock, dest_lock = None, None
diff --git a/tests/test-clone b/tests/test-clone
--- a/tests/test-clone
+++ b/tests/test-clone
@@ -25,3 +25,11 @@ cd ../d
 hg clone ../a
 cd a
 hg cat a
+
+# check that we drop the file:// from the path before
+# writing the .hgrc
+cd ../..
+hg clone file://a e
+grep 'file:' e/.hg/hgrc
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/tests/test-clone.out b/tests/test-clone.out
--- a/tests/test-clone.out
+++ b/tests/test-clone.out
@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ 1 files, 1 changesets, 1 total revisions
 destination directory: a
 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
 a
+1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved