From the Perforce documentation: Shelving is the process of temporarily storing work in progress on a Perforce Server without submitting a changelist. Shelving is useful when you need to perform multiple development tasks (such as interruptions from higher-priority work, testing across multiple platforms) on the same set of files, or share files for code review … Read more
git shelve doesn’t exist in Git. Only git stash: when you want to record the current state of the working directory and the index, but want to go back to a clean working directory. which saves your local modifications away and reverts the working directory to match the HEAD commit. You had a 2008 old … Read more
I was looking for the same i.e. to compare the contents of two shelveets without needing to unshelve one of them. End up writing a Visual Studio extension for the functionality. The extension is available for Visual studio 2013 http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/1fa59764-efc6-457a-a5f3-81ca68e280e8 and for Visual studio 2012 http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/33c521d4-73fc-48be-969d-fa68c511341f Please feel free to use and give your feedback.
From the Mercurial shelve documentation (or using hg help shelve): To delete specific shelved changes, use “–delete”. To delete all shelved changes, use “–cleanup”. options: -d –delete delete the named shelved change(s) So if your patch was called my-patch, then you would delete it using: hg shelve -d my-patch
Unshelving is how you restore the shelveset to your machine so you can keep working on it. It doesn’t change the shelveset on the server (to do that you need to shelve things again and use the same shelveset name). One example for how I use it is to move changes between machines while I’m … Read more
git shelve doesn’t exist in Git. Only git stash: when you want to record the current state of the working directory and the index, but want to go back to a clean working directory. which saves your local modifications away and reverts the working directory to match the HEAD commit. You had a 2008 old … Read more