Question

I create a working repository in HG.
And I have modified some files.

How can i move my all my modification to a branch (a branch that I have not created)?
(kind of ‘git stash’ and the move the stash away change to a branch. Actually, I am not sure how I can do that in git either. If you know, I appreciate if you can tell me in git as well)

Thank you.

Answer 1

First check to make sure that neither the ShelveExtension nor AtticExtension do exactly what you want.

If you’re doing it manually in mercurial I’d avoid a named branch, and just use another head. If for example, you already made the changes you want to “put away” for a little bit.

hg commit -m 'working on Xxx' # you created a new tip
hg update -r -2               # switch to the revision before the tip

and now just start working there. You can find that anonymous branch later with hg heads and merge it in with hg merge.