# HG changeset patch
# User Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
# Date 2022-12-03 02:45:39
# Node ID 8a38cd76588fd5f493218059ec0cd08a2c740c0c
# Parent  2a5feacc4085630bde395654c20cf4299f34fe17

clone: explicitly detect the need to fetch a peer

Instead of having `peer()` method on all `peer()` for this usecase, we could
simply handle it explicitly.

diff --git a/mercurial/hg.py b/mercurial/hg.py
--- a/mercurial/hg.py
+++ b/mercurial/hg.py
@@ -717,6 +717,11 @@ def clone(
             branches = (src_path.branch, branch or [])
             source = src_path.loc
     else:
+        if util.safehasattr(source, 'peer'):
+            srcpeer = source.peer()  # in case we were called with a localrepo
+        else:
+            srcpeer = source
+        branches = (None, branch or [])
         # XXX path: simply use the peer `path` object when this become available
         srcpeer = source.peer()  # in case we were called with a localrepo
         branches = (None, branch or [])