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

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

  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>`