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

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
  > 
  > >   > Further discussion on the bazaar ml indicates that using shelve1/shelf1
  > >   > is not a good idea.
  > >
  > > Can you please forward 2 feature requests for shelve/unshelve then:
  > > 1. some way to show the diff
  > 
  > This is underway.

Good, code to support it is there, but commented out.

  > > 2. something similar to "git stash apply", i.e. apply the shelf but do
  > > not remove it.  This makes it easy to split changes for example.
  > 
  > Would you care to describe a plausible scenario where this is useful?
  > I can't think of one rigth now.

Say you have something shelved.
You want to try to refine the change, unshelve it and continue working
on it.  If you realize that what you had before was better, there's no
easy way to go back.
Or if you want to split a change: 
shelve
apply
remove the part you don't want
shelve the partial change
unshelve the original
remove some other part
shelve again