Using mercurial while keeping uncomitted changes

[waldemar]

On 04/09/2010 12:16 PM, Aardwolf wrote:
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> Waldemar Augustyn-2 wrote:
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>> Then there is shelve extension but I have not used it.
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> I have tried this shelve extension today, but it's not very stable yet. I
> wouldn't rely on it. I think it would be very handy if the official
> Mercurial would include an official shelve plugin that can shelve the whole
> working directory, unshelve it to a later revision without complaints (even
> if there were added files etc...), shelve again, unshelve again, etc... with
> ease.
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Right.  In your particular case, you can achieve a similar effect by
cloning your current repo to some other location.  This will carry over
everything except your working directory.  In this way, you can
merge/rebase there without affecting your current work.