Problem with clone octave repository

[Zbigniew Komarnicki]

Hi

I want to download the octave repository as stated here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/get-involved.html


$ hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
real URL is http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave
destination directory: octave
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 15606 changesets with 100556 changes to 11416 files (+10 heads)
updating to branch default
abort: unknown subrepo type git

Why this not work? The error states:
"abort: unknown subrepo type git"

Im using: Debian Squeeze and mercurial and git is installed.

$ whereis hg
hg: /usr/bin/hg /usr/share/man/man1/hg.1.gz
hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.6.4)

Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Matt Mackall <address@hidden> and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ whereis git
git: /usr/bin/git /usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz
$ git --version
git version 1.7.2.5


Regards