On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 03:29:45PM +0000, Julian Foad wrote: > > How about a combination of new subcommands for actions which > > tranfer working copy state from/to the shelf (used frequently), > > and just one subcommand with options for management of the > > shelf itself (used less frequently), like: > > > > svn shelve > > svn unshelve > > svn shelf --list > > svn shelf --drop > > svn shelf --diff/--show > > That's a totally reasonable approach, and is similar to (not exactly the > same as) what's currently implemented on trunk and on shelve-checkpoint > branch. > > FWIW you missed out 'svn save' (create a checkpoint, don't revert from WC).
That could be 'svn shelve --keep' > The discussion of syntax for referring to a particular shelf and version is > perhaps the more interesting part of the whole discussion; I would welcome > any thoughts on that part. We could assign numbers to them, display those in 'svn shelf --list', and let all other shelf-manipulating options expect a number. Additionally, or instead, we could have user-provided shelf entry names (UTF-8 strings), and allow them to be used for identification.
