We're using the Mercurial SCM plugin to clone a repository so that it can be archived and made available to other jobs via the Copy Artifact plugin. We can't use the plugin directly from these subsequent jobs because they actually use two separate repositories, so we have two jobs that provide such artifacts.

The problem is that we need to clone all branches, and when leaving the branch empty the 'default' branch is cloned/pulled. It would be great if there was an option grab all branches. At the moment we are using a workaround of the 'hg pull' command as one of our build steps.