Committing a patch?

[Mark Williamson]

> > * Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr> [20060404 18:47]:
> >> According to Matthieu Moy:
> >>> time, and bzr has shelve/unshelve to allow you to put some changes
> >>> aside temporarily. I personnally like the shelve/unshelve approach.
> >>
> >> shelve/unshelve is similar to what mq does, does it?
> >
> > Yes, but maybe easier to understand due to limited feature set.

Maybe it would be worth implementing "shelve" / "unshelve" as some sort of 
alias for existing mq functionality?  It would give the same useful features 
whilst avoiding creating a whole new extension.

Cheers,
Mark

>
> IMHO, it would be very nice having the most basic patch handling
> functionality in mq getting added to mercurial and explained in the main
> docs. If those features are helpful and used widely maybe keeping them
> as an extension makes them look like something for very specialized
> power users. At least that's the impression I got from reading the ML
> and realizing how powerful and flexible the tool (mq) seems to be. I
> could have never imagined that it could help a "normal" user like me to
> have a more pleasant workflow.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rafael Villar Burke
>
>
>
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