Introducing Shelf 2

[Martin Pool]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> wrote:
> Aaron Bentley пишет:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Most Bazaar users seem to love the 'shelf' command.  I think it's
>> fantastically useful, and that's not vanity because the primary author
>> was Michael Ellerman.
>>
>> Nice as it is, shelf has limitations because it's based on applying
>> patches.  It can't shelve renames.  It can shelve added files, but won't
>> restore their file ids when you unshelve.  Basically, it's not as close
>> to revert as it ought to be, which leaves users having to decide whether
>> they need shelf or revert.

This sounds pretty cool.  I'd like to see it merged in, because it's
something many users may want, and because that'll make it easier for
GUIs to build on it.

> Do you plan to support shelving binary files?

If it's based on treetransform and packs then it should support them already...

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>