Something like "darcs record" / "hg record" == Select changes to commit.

[Martin Packman]

On 06/06/2012, Daniel Carrera <dcarrera at hush.com> wrote:
>
> That's how I feel. I would add that I have experimented with "shelve" and
> some times it doesn't let me select individual hunks in a file if they are
> very close. So the only way to commit the change I want (e.g. fixing a typo
> in a comment) is to undo some of the work I've done in nearby lines, then
> commit, and then re-add my changes... That feels like something my VCS would
> ideally take care of... I currently use Hg with the crecord plugin because
> it gives me per-line granularity.

Okay, so you haven't found that you can actually do what you want with
shelve after all? It was mentioned earlier in the thread. You just set
an editor, as specified in the documentation:

<http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/bzr.2.5/en/user-reference/shelve-help.html>

It's not a new feature:

<http://raim.codingfarm.de/blog/2010/02/27/bzr-shelve-improved-in-2-1-0/>

Hope that helps you,

Martin