bzr unshelve should support --list

I was going to suggest a "bzr shelved" command that would show the list of shelved changes when I saw this bug. I agree that unshelve should have a list option.

As far as I know, the command is "bzr shelf list" not "bzr shelve --list".

I find the bzr shelf command with its subcommands quite confusing, especially in my typical usage where I'm shelving some changes, committing, and then unshelving my changes to continue work. Since you can't provide a shelf id or name when you're shelving, it confuses me that the shelf name 'default' is exposed.

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Tim Powell wrote:
> As far as I know, the command is "bzr shelf list" not "bzr shelve
> --list".

shelve --list is the bzr command, which is a new shelf implementation.
shelf list is the old bzrtools command, and has been renamed to "shelf1
list".

> I find the bzr shelf command with its subcommands quite confusing,

It's gone in modern versions of bzr and bzrtools.

> especially in my typical usage where I'm shelving some changes,
> committing, and then unshelving my changes to continue work. Since you
> can't provide a shelf id or name when you're shelving, it confuses me
> that the shelf name 'default' is exposed.

The bzr unshelve implementation does allow a shelf id to be specified.
It does not support multiple shelves.

The bzrtools implementation allows you to specify the changes to be
unshelved. To switch between shelves, you use "bzr shelf1 switch".

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Tim Powell wrote:
>> I find the bzr shelf command with its subcommands quite confusing,

> It's gone in modern versions of bzr and bzrtools.

Hmm... I had installed bzr 1.17, but I apparently had an older version of bzrtools installed (are they usually packaged together?) I thought it was a ppa problem that was causing a version conflict message. Once I removed bztools, shelf worked as described. I apologize for the confusion.

> The bzr unshelve implementation does allow a shelf id to be specified.
> It does not support multiple shelves.

I'm missing something here. Does a shelf id not refer to a shelve? Since it supports specifying a shelf id, it seems like it supports multiple shelves.

Are you saying that there's an unshelve command in both bzr and bzrtools?

Have tried unshelve --list instictively several times so I'm voting for this option. I'm also instictively abbreviating --list to -l so that would be nice too.