Re: support for bzr shelve/unshelve in vc-dir

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
  > 
  > >   > > Are the bzr shelve/unshelve commands popular?  Do we want
  > >   > > something similar to the vc-dir support for "git stash" for bzr
  > >   > > shelve/unshelve?
  > >   > 
  > >   > That would be welcome, yes.
  > >
  > > Done.
  > 
  > The implementation shelves all the changes on the current
  > branch. Although this is useful, an usual application of `shelve' is for
  > temporarily removing out of your way some changes (allowing to commit
  > only specific changes of the edited files, for example.) An ideal
  > implementation of `shelve' for vc would show the output of `bzr diff',
  > mark the hunks you want to shelve, and then run the command. Sadly, it
  > seems impossible to non-interactively indicate to bzr which hunks it
  > should shelve.

That's exactly the reason for the current implementation.
Patches to add other methods to create shelves (including an
interactive) are surely welcome.

  > > I couldn't find a way to display the content of a shelf, so support for
  > > that is missing.
  > 
  > As mentioned on a previous message, `bzr shelf1 list' should do what you
  > need. It is from bzrtools, which is a popular plugin. However, the
  > command either is broken or I don't know how to use it. I'll ask on the
  > bazaar ml.

bzr shelf1 list doesn't even show shelves created with bzr shelve...