bzr should have one shelf per branch.

Interesting ideas.

I think in some cases it is useful to be able to unshelve from one branch into another, and also to be able to carry across uncommitted changes. But we could certainly usefully add options to do the opposite, and perhaps consider whether they should be the default.

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On 3/14/2011 9:42 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
> Interesting ideas.
>
> I think in some cases it is useful to be able to unshelve from one
> branch into another, and also to be able to carry across uncommitted
> changes. But we could certainly usefully add options to do the
> opposite, and perhaps consider whether they should be the default.
>
> ** Tags added: colocated-branches shelf switch
>
> ** Changed in: bzr
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
> ** Changed in: bzr
> Importance: Undecided => Medium
>
> ** Tags added: feature ui
>

Note that bzr-pipeline does some sort of magic to have per-branch
shelves. Such that using the pipe-switch (not sure of the name) command,
will shelve, switch branches and switch working shelves.

John
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bzr-pipeline does what I describe, but I find the piping workflow not to be a good fit for what I'm doing. Basically, the colo plugin shelving all changes when switching branches would be *ideal*. That would enable me to just switch between feature branches at will, regardless of whether the feature is done or not. It would make my workflow *much* more efficient.

Porting changes from other branches would be as simple as "bzr switch colo:other-branch --no-shelve" or something equivalent...

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On 3/14/2011 1:01 PM, Stavros Korokithakis wrote:
> bzr-pipeline does what I describe, but I find the piping workflow not to
> be a good fit for what I'm doing. Basically, the colo plugin shelving
> all changes when switching branches would be *ideal*. That would enable
> me to just switch between feature branches at will, regardless of
> whether the feature is done or not. It would make my workflow *much*
> more efficient.
>
> Porting changes from other branches would be as simple as "bzr switch
> colo:other-branch --no-shelve" or something equivalent...
>

Out of curiosity, if you are using colo-branches for feature
development, why do you need to keep shelves around. why not just commit
the work and switch?

John
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I'm too averse to committing half-working releases, I like to be able to restore to each commit and have things work reasonably well. I realise that this is a personal preference, and that I can commit and then uncommit, but these feel much less clean than the way bzr-pipeline does it (I believe
 git does it that way as well?)...

On 14 March 2011 23:26, Stavros Korokithakis <email address hidden> wrote:
> I'm too averse to committing half-working releases, I like to be able to restore to each commit and have things work reasonably well. I realise that this is a personal preference, and that I can commit and then uncommit, but these feel much less clean than the way bzr-pipeline does it (I believe
>  git does it that way as well?)...

I believe git does also encourage you to commit before switching to
save half done work. I don't really like that either. At least an
option to save uncommitted work outside of the tree would be
worthwhile.

I have the same "quirk" as Stavros. I dislike committing partial work on feature branches, especially if it doesn't even compile. Primarily because I use the diff of uncommitted changes to remind me what I've changed and where I am in my current work. I've been shelving and unshelving manually like he describes so something to make it automatic like he suggests would be quite useful to me.

Is there any update on this? Maybe some feature that has been developed makes this possible now, via a hook or something similar?