Having recently switched from subversion (svn) to mercurial (hg) for my source control needs, I needed to find an equivalent to my web development workflow that looks something like this:
svn export ..\project.export
rsync ..\project.export ssh://[email protected]
The equivalent of exporting an unversioned copy of your code in mercurial is:
hg archive ..\project.export
And then you can do whatever you want with it.