Re: [TSVN] Shelving

John wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Further to the chat in the main SVN list about 'shelving', would it be a good
> menu option to add to TSVN?
>
> Shelving your WC would do the following:
>
> Create a new branch with specified name
> Switch to it
> Commit any WC changes to the branch
> If 'revert' tick box was selected, switch you back to original url and revert.
>
> This is useful in two ways. Firstly it allows quick feature-branching (good for
> savepoints). Secondly, when you to stop work on one taks, fix that massive bug
> in trunk, then get back to your original work.
>
> Ben's just about convinced me these should go in the main repos, and not in a
> seperate patch-storage system! Visual Studio Team Sys seems to keep 'shelvesets'
> outside it's versioned file system.

But as Mark Phippard commented in that thread, you can already make a
branch directly from a WC. I can't see what else you want to achieve here.

We could maybe add a 'Switch to branch' checkbox to the Branch/Tag
dialog so that the WC is switched to the new branch after creation,
which would save an additional switch operation.

What you are calling 'revert' is simply a 'switch' back to where you
were before. I don't think we should change the current meaning of revert.

Simon

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