How can I do "hg shelf apply"?

Question

I would like to copy some changes from my Mercurial shelf to my working directory, leaving an unchanged copy in the shelf.

Git would let me do that with git stash apply, however I can't see a way to get TortoiseHg to let me do the same.

Is there any way to retrieve to copy the changes from the shelf, rather than move them?

Jeffry

Switch to MQ, which have nice GUI in TortoiseHG?! – Brickey

Answer 1

1. unshelve command has option --keep (see hg help shelve)

2. Shelve extension stores shelves in .hg/shelves. If you stored named shelf, you can copy file, named as shelf, before hg unshelve NAME

Brickey

Thanks: that will be the one Hg command I have to drop into the command line for, pending an option within TortoiseHg! – Jeffry

In fact, TortoiseHg seems to use a separate shelf entirely. The command line and GUI both have shelves that work independently but don't interact. Does anyone know why? – Jeffry

@StevePitchers IIRC the THG shelf feature was developed first. – Bernard

Answer 2

hg help unshelve

says that:

hg unshelve --keep     keeps shelve after unshelving

So I assume this is what you are looking for.

Adenovirus