Splitting diff hunks in ‘shelve’

Ian Clatworthy ian.clatworthy at canonical.com
Thu Sep 24 02:56:53 BST 2009


John Szakmeister wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> [snip]
>> [0] I'm so accustomed to ‘shelve’ that I forget to evangelise it, and
>>    don't see it discussed much, with the often-amusing result that Git
>>    and Darcs users are often unaware of it and think they have a
>>    knock-down zinger with their much more well-known equivalent
>>    features. I've even seen many raise their eyebrows at the notion
>>    that ‘shelve’ it's even *more* useful than the default operation of
>>    Darcs or Git, since (like Git's ‘stash’) it stays out of your way
>>    until you ask for it.
> 
> Same here.  I mentioned it to a few guys that I work with, and they
> want to switch to Bazaar simply because of shelf! :-)

I'm *really* looking forward to the day when qshelve and qunshelve
arrive. shelve/unshelve is the primary reason I need to go back to the
command line at times.

Ian C.



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