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BzrTools is a collection of useful enhancements to Bazaar.
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For installation instructions, see the BzrTools home page:
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http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrTools.
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Here is a sample of the frequently used commands it provides.
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shelve, shelf, unshelve
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These commands provide a fine-grained (patch-hunk level) undo facility.
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This allows you to put aside some of your changes, commit,
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and get back to where you were before.
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For example, consider a working tree with one or more changes made ... ::
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=== modified file 'description.txt'
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+written by Michael Ellerman
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+perform a commit, and get
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The ``shelve`` command interactively asks which changes
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you want to retain in the working tree::
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+written by Michael Ellerman
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Keep this change? (1 of 2) [nydisq?] (n): y
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+perform a commit, and get
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Keep this change? (2 of 2) [nydisq?] (n): n
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Shelve these changes, or restart? [yrsiq?] (y): y
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Saving shelved patches to /tmp/proj/.bzr-shelf
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Reverting shelved patches
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description.txt | 2 +-
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1 files changes, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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If there are lots of changes in the working tree, you
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can provide the ``shelve`` command with a list of files
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and you will only be asked about changes in those files.
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After shelving changes, it's a good idea to use ``diff``
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to confirm the tree has just the changes you expect::
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=== modified file 'description.txt'
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+written by Michael Ellerman
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Great - you're ready to commit::
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$ bzr commit -m "improve first sentence"
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At some later time, you can bring the shelved changes back into the
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working tree using ``unshelve``::
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Reapplying shelved patches
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description.txt | 4 ++--
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1 files changes, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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If you want to, you can put multiple items on the shelf.
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Normally each time you run ``unshelve`` the most recently
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shelved changes will be reinstated. However, you can also
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unshelve changes in a different order by explicitly
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specifying which changes to unshelve. (This works best
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when the changes don't depend on each other.)
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While you have patches on the shelf you can view and manipulate them
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with the ``shelf`` command. Run ``bzr shelf -h`` for more information
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about how to do this.
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``bzr shell`` starts up a command interpreter than understands
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Bazaar commands natively. This has several advantages:
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* There's no need to type ``bzr`` at the front of every command.
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* Intelligent auto-completion is provided.
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* Commands run slightly faster as there's no need to load Bazaar's
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``bzr cdiff`` provides a colored version of ``bzr diff`` output.
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On GNU/Linux, UNIX and OS X, this is often used like this::