hg equivalent of git stash

[Masklinn]

On 2011-12-12, at 17:13 , anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Masklinn <masklinn at masklinn.net> wrote:
>> On 2011-12-12, at 16:15 , anatoly techtonik wrote:
>>> Quoting http://markmail.org/message/lglewvoffuxnffbz
>>> On Jan 12, 2008 3:27:01 pm, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 17:13 -0600, Phillip Koebbe wrote:
>>>>> I was reading earlier today about "git stash" and was thinking it
>>>>> would be very useful to me. Is something like that available in hg?
>>>> You might be interested in mq, which is about a million times more
>>>> useful.
>>> Among million use cases for mq, can anybody explain the mq equivalent of
>>> git stash?
>>> 
>>> My use case: I want to put my current changes away temporarily (into
>>> stash), do some unrelated changes, commit them and then get my previous
>>> changes back (removing them from stash). How do I do this with mq?
>> 
>>> hg qnew -f [-i] [-m "reminder message"] some-patch-name [files…]
>>> hg qpop
>> 
> 'hg diff' doesn't show anything, so this solution is either wrong or
> incomplete (thanks for the answer, I appreciate it, but it doesn't help
> people who will be searching for 'git stash' recipe for mercurial).
Wouldn't `hg diff` not showing anything be *the whole point* of stashing stuff? The two commands above result in shelving data, not in unshelving it.