shelve

Purpose:

Temporarily set aside some changes from the current tree.

Usage:

bzr shelve [FILE...]

Options:

--all	Shelve all changes.
-v, --verbose	Display more information.
--list	List shelved changes.
-h, --help	Show help message.
-q, --quiet	Only display errors and warnings.
-d ARG, --directory=ARG
	Branch to operate on, instead of working directory.
--usage	Show usage message and options.
--destroy	Destroy removed changes instead of shelving them.
-m ARG, --message=ARG
	Message string.
-r ARG, --revision=ARG
	See “help revisionspec” for details.

writer:

--plain

Plaintext diff output.

Description:

Shelve allows you to temporarily put changes you’ve made “on the shelf”, ie. out of the way, until a later time when you can bring them back from the shelf with the ‘unshelve’ command. The changes are stored alongside your working tree, and so they aren’t propagated along with your branch nor will they survive its deletion.

If shelve –list is specified, previously-shelved changes are listed.

Shelve is intended to help separate several sets of changes that have been inappropriately mingled. If you just want to get rid of all changes and you don’t need to restore them later, use revert. If you want to shelve all text changes at once, use shelve –all.

If filenames are specified, only the changes to those files will be shelved. Other files will be left untouched.

If a revision is specified, changes since that revision will be shelved.

You can put multiple items on the shelf, and by default, ‘unshelve’ will restore the most recently shelved changes.

For complicated changes, it is possible to edit the changes in a separate editor program to decide what the file remaining in the working copy should look like. To do this, add the configuration option

change_editor = PROGRAM @new_path @old_path

where @new_path is replaced with the path of the new version of the file and @old_path is replaced with the path of the old version of the file. The PROGRAM should save the new file with the desired contents of the file in the working tree.

See also:

configuration, unshelve