shelve
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:Purpose: Temporarily set aside some changes from the current tree.
:Usage:   brz shelve [FILE...]

:Options:
  --all                 Shelve all changes.
  --destroy             Destroy removed changes instead of shelving them.
  -d ARG, --directory=ARG
                        Branch to operate on, instead of working directory.
  -h, --help            Show help message.
  --list                List shelved changes.
  -m ARG, --message=ARG
                        Message string.
  -q, --quiet           Only display errors and warnings.
  -r ARG, --revision=ARG
                        See "help revisionspec" for details.
  --usage               Show usage message and options.
  -v, --verbose         Display more information.

  writer:
    --plain             Plaintext diff output.

:Description:
  Shelve allows you to temporarily put changes you've made "on the shelf",
  ie. out of the way, until a later time when you can bring them back from
  the shelf with the 'unshelve' command.  The changes are stored alongside
  your working tree, and so they aren't propagated along with your branch nor
  will they survive its deletion.
  
  If shelve --list is specified, previously-shelved changes are listed.
  
  Shelve is intended to help separate several sets of changes that have
  been inappropriately mingled.  If you just want to get rid of all changes
  and you don't need to restore them later, use revert.  If you want to
  shelve all text changes at once, use shelve --all.
  
  If filenames are specified, only the changes to those files will be
  shelved. Other files will be left untouched.
  
  If a revision is specified, changes since that revision will be shelved.
  
  You can put multiple items on the shelf, and by default, 'unshelve' will
  restore the most recently shelved changes.
  
  For complicated changes, it is possible to edit the changes in a separate
  editor program to decide what the file remaining in the working copy
  should look like.  To do this, add the configuration option
  
      change_editor = PROGRAM {new_path} {old_path}
  
  where {new_path} is replaced with the path of the new version of the
  file and {old_path} is replaced with the path of the old version of
  the file.  The PROGRAM should save the new file with the desired
  contents of the file in the working tree.

:See also: :doc:`configuration <configuration-help>`, :doc:`unshelve <unshelve-help>`


