[PATCH 2 of 4 V2] shelve: add a shelve extension to save/restore working changes

[David Soria Parra]

On 10/02/2013 08:57 AM, harry wrote:
> David Soria Parra-3 wrote
>> Storing the shelved change as a bundle also avoids the difficulty
>> that hidden commits would cause, of making it impossible to amend
>> the parent if it is a draft commits (a common scenario).
> 
> I'm interested in this common scenario. I was thinking of writing a shelve
> extension that used hidden commits, because I've never needed to change a
> shelf's ancestors during its lifetime.

A common scenario would be: you edit something but you find a typo in a
change that you made before. Therefore you shelve your current changes
and amend the previous commit with then new change and then reapply your
shelved changes.

Hope that helps.

David