[jira] [Commented] (SVN-3625) Commit shelving

["Julian Foad (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Julian Foad commented on SVN-3625:
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Shelving "v1" (storage as patch files) was released in Subversion 1.10.0.

> Commit shelving
> ---------------
>
>                 Key: SVN-3625
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-3625
>             Project: Subversion
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: libsvn_client
>    Affects Versions: trunk
>            Reporter: C. Michael Pilato
>            Assignee: Julian Foad
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: api, needsdesign
>             Fix For: 1.10.0
>
>
> Developers often need to temporarily put aside in-process working copy changes to begin some other usually-short-lived task.  You know the routine.  You're halfway through the implementation of a medium-sized feature when -- stop the presses!  A customer just found a mission-critical bug in the app!
> Current workarounds include:
> * create a branch; switch to branch; commit unfinished primary task code to branch; switch back; handle and commit secondary task; merge from branch; resume primary task.
> * use 'svn diff' to make a patchfile for primary task work; svn revert -R; handle and commit secondary task; use 'patch' to recreate local primary task mods; deal with all the stuff (prop changes, added/deleted files, etc.) that 'patch' can't represent; resume primary task.
> * (same as above, except that in 1.7 you can use 'svn patch' instead of 'patch' and the fixup step)
> A better approach that avoids the need to create server branches and to marshal/unmarshal changes away from Subversion would be to support 'svn shelve/unshelve' commands, where "shelve" means "squirrel away my changes into the working copy metadata and revert them from the WORKING tree " and "unshelve" means "merge the changes I previously squirreled away back into my WORKING tree".



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