+2010-04-16 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+ * maintaining.texi (VC Directory Commands): Mention stashes and shelves.
+
2010-04-15 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* dired.texi (Misc Dired Features): Mention VC diff and log.
@kbd{M-s a C-M-s} does an incremental search on the marked files.
- Commands are also accessible from the VC-dir menu. Note that some VC
-backends use the VC-dir menu to make available extra backend specific
-commands.
+@cindex stashes in version control
+@cindex shelves in version control
+ Commands are also accessible from the VC-dir menu. Note that some
+VC backends use the VC-dir menu to make available extra,
+backend-specific, commands. For example, Git and Bazaar allow you to
+manipulate @dfn{stashes} and @dfn{shelves}. (These provide a
+mechanism to temporarily store uncommitted changes somewhere out of
+the way, and bring them back at a later time.)
Normal VC commands with the @kbd{C-x v} prefix work in VC directory
buffers. Some single-key shortcuts are available as well; @kbd{=},
**** The short log format for git makes use of the graph display, so
it's not supported on git versions earlier than 1.5.
++++
**** Support for operating with stashes has been added to vc-dir:
the stash list is displayed in the *vc-dir* header, stashes can be
created, removed, applied and their content displayed.
**** vc-dir requires at least git-1.5.5.
++++
*** vc-bzr supports operating with shelves: the shelve list is
displayed in the *vc-dir* header, shelves can be created, removed and applied.
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