bzr shelve: allow splitting hunks into smaller ones

[Marius Gedminas]

Sometimes two unrelated changes are situated close to each other, yet separated by one or more lines of unmodified context. I'd like bzr shelve to allow me the option of splitting the hunk into smaller hunks if possible, so I could shelve those changes separately.

If you've ever used git, 'git add -p' can do this.

[Aaron Bentley (abentley)]

The bzrtools version of shelve, i.e. shelve1, is in bugfix-only mode. The bzr version of shelve, i.e. shelve2, allows shelving on a finer-than-hunk basis using the shelve_editor and "e" option.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I was using 'bzr shelve'. Judging from 'bzr help shelve|grep plugin' it's the one from bzr core (since "bzr help shelve1|grep plugin" says it comes form bzrtools). I'll try to reassign it to bzr.

Just a note that my version of "bzr shelve" had no indication it supported anything other than y/n/f/q for each hunk. Do I need to configure something for the 'e' option to become available, or do I need to upgrade bzr? I'm running 2.0.2-1~bazaar1~karmic from the bazaar PPA.