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

[Idan Kamara]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 1:19 PM, harry <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:

> David Soria Parra-3 wrote
> > It is possible to do everything with obsolete markers and phases (like
> > it would be possible to do with mq), but shelve is a much more
> > convenient way to move around temporary changes and clean the working
> > directory for a short period while doing other.
>
> I'm not asking why we need a shelve extension, just why unbundling the
> changes is better than hidden changesets. Every change to the anscestors
> should rebase the shelf if it was still in the graph, which would seem to
> be
> an improvement over trying to merge everything at once when unshelving.


One problem of keeping the stash in history is that it's incompatible with
MQ.

See this thread http://mercurial.markmail.org/thread/p2fkoj5welx6nmkb
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