Help: shelve

hg shelve [OPTION]... [FILE]...

save and set aside changes from the working directory

Shelving takes files that "hg status" reports as not clean, saves the modifications to a bundle (a shelved change), and reverts the files so that their state in the working directory becomes clean.

To restore these changes to the working directory, using "hg unshelve"; this will work even if you switch to a different commit.

When no files are specified, "hg shelve" saves all not-clean files. If specific files or directories are named, only changes to those files are shelved.

In bare shelve (when no files are specified, without interactive, include and exclude option), shelving remembers information if the working directory was on newly created branch, in other words working directory was on different branch than its first parent. In this situation unshelving restores branch information to the working directory.

Each shelved change has a name that makes it easier to find later. The name of a shelved change defaults to being based on the active bookmark, or if there is no active bookmark, the current named branch. To specify a different name, use "--name".

To see a list of existing shelved changes, use the "--list" option. For each shelved change, this will print its name, age, and description; use "--patch" or "--stat" for more details.

To delete specific shelved changes, use "--delete". To delete all shelved changes, use "--cleanup".

options ([+] can be repeated):

-A --addremove mark new/missing files as added/removed before shelving
-u --unknown store unknown files in the shelve
--cleanup delete all shelved changes
--date DATE shelve with the specified commit date
-d --delete delete the named shelved change(s)
-e --edit invoke editor on commit messages
-k --keep shelve, but keep changes in the working directory
-l --list list current shelves
-m --message TEXT use text as shelve message
-n --name NAME use the given name for the shelved commit
-p --patch output patches for changes (provide the names of the shelved changes as positional arguments)
-i --interactive interactive mode
--stat output diffstat-style summary of changes (provide the names of the shelved changes as positional arguments)
-I --include PATTERN [+] include names matching the given patterns
-X --exclude PATTERN [+] exclude names matching the given patterns

global options ([+] can be repeated):

-R --repository REPO repository root directory or name of overlay bundle file
--cwd DIR change working directory
-y --noninteractive do not prompt, automatically pick the first choice for all prompts
-q --quiet suppress output
-v --verbose enable additional output
--color TYPE when to colorize (boolean, always, auto, never, or debug)
--config CONFIG [+] set/override config option (use 'section.name=value')
--debug enable debugging output
--debugger start debugger
--encoding ENCODE set the charset encoding (default: US-ASCII)
--encodingmode MODE set the charset encoding mode (default: strict)
--traceback always print a traceback on exception
--time time how long the command takes
--profile print command execution profile
--version output version information and exit
-h --help display help and exit
--hidden consider hidden changesets
--pager TYPE when to paginate (boolean, always, auto, or never) (default: auto)