Mercurial `hg clone` but ignoring all subrepos?

Question

Is there a way to clone a repo that comes with subrepos, but without having Mercurial pull all the subrepos?

It appears that while hg clone -U can be used t

Answer 1

Found a hacky way. It still requires all subrepos to be checked out once, but afterwards they can be deleted.

1. Clone the whole lot, including subrepos. No way around this.
2. Delete subrepos
3. hg remove .hgsub

I tried to convince Mercurial to hg remove .hgsub before the subrepos are cloned, but the best I got is not removing .hgsub: file is untracked.