(fwd) bzr shelve feedback

[Michael Ellerman]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 12:09, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Michael Ellerman <michael at ellerman.id.au> writes:
> > I'm happy to accept suggestions to make the UI for shelve more intuitive,
> > I agree the current messages probably aren't very useful. I also plan to
> > make shelve default to shelving everything without prompting, with a flag
> > to get the hunk selection behaviour. I just haven't thought of a good
> > name for the flag, --pick, --select, --hunks ??
>
> While you're here:
>
> I think "unshelve" could also allow per-hunk selection. Suppose you
> have 5 unrelated changes in your tree, and want to commit 5 revisions.
> Then you probably want something like
>
> $ bzr shelve --all
> $ bzr unshelve --interactive # that's just to add one to the list of
>                              # possible names for this option ;-)
> <select patche hunks for the first commit>
> $ bzr commit -m "first portion"
> $ bzr unshelve --interactive
> ...
> $ bzr commit ...

Yep, I agree that would be useful - I'll put it on my long and growing todo 
list :D I'm still not sure about the option name, I think I like --select 
best, but --interactive isn't bad either.

cheers

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