Re: [patch: first impression]

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11.10.2022 09:25, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> Do you mean: the not committed hunks are shelved?

Shelved before the commit is made and restored at the end, see the patch.

> But now that you mention it, mercurial also supports interactive
> shelving (so to speak the inverse operation to interactive commit. I am
> not sure that git has that feature).
>
> So couldn't that also be included? That would be really great, since 
> commit-patch does not support it.
>
> The binding could be either C-u vc-next-action or
> something like this (just to explain the idea)
>
> (defun toggle-commit-or-shelve-interactively ()
>    (interactive)
>    (with-output-to-temp-buffer "vc-list-buffer"
>      (princ "List of functions\n")
>      (princ "1: commit interactively\n")                                      
>      (princ "2: shelv interactively \n"))
>      (let  ((ch (string-to-char (read-string "Which choice: 1: 2:  "))))
>        (call-interactively (cond ((eql ch ?1) #'vc-commit-interactively)        
>                                 
>                                 ((eql ch ?2) #'vc-shelve-interactively)
>                                 (t (error 'args-out-of-range '(1 2  ch))))))
>      (kill-buffer "vc-list-buffer"))

I'm not sure where to plug functionality like that.

> I will try to test this later (I presume I don't need to recompile the
> whole emacs 😉; just kidding)

FWIW, you don't really have to recompile Emacs. You could `C-M-x` on the 
new definitions instead after applying either of the patches.