Questions regarding to undo shelve operations primarily on changes in version control systems such as TFS
Questions tagged [unshelve]
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Can I unshelve to a different branch in tfs 2008?
Let's assume that some developer in my team shelved his changes that he did in branch A. And I am working on branch B. Can I unshelve his changes into branch B? (By GUI or command prompt)

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Unshelving in TFS: What does it mean?
Here's the part I get: When you shelve in TFS, it makes a server copy of the changes so they are not lost, but does not check them into the source code trunk/branch you are working on.
Question: Under what circumstances would you use the "unshelve"…

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TF203015 The Item $/path/file has an incompatible pending change. While trying to unshelve
I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Pro against Team Server 2010 and I had my project opened (apparently) as a solution from the repo, but I should've opened it as "web site". I found this out during compile, so I went to shelve my new changes and deleted…

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How to download TFS shelveset
I need to download a shelveset from TFS to a local folder. Is there any tools or add-in for Visual studio 2010 to download shelveset

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How can I instruct Perforce to merge instead of overwrite or revert when unshelving a file?
How can I instruct Perforce to merge changes into an existing, open, and modified file in the workspace when unshelving a file shelved in the depot? The only options that Perforce appears to offer the user is to overwrite or revert the existing…

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How to unshelve a shelved changelist to another branch prior to Perforce 2013?
Using Perforce Server 2012.2/538478, how can I unshelve files from the trunk to another branch?
When trying to do it, I get:
//filename... (not mapped to your workspace view)
In Perforce 2013, I found this unshelve command to really be helpful:
p4…

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TFPT Unshelve migrate not working
I know this has been asked before, but as there were no answers, I'm asking again.
I'm trying to migrate a shelveset from one branch to another. I'm running the following command, from within the workspace DIR:
tfpt unshelve changes;myusername…

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hg unshelve seems to have no effect?
Our team is just getting started with Mercurial. One of the first things we've started to play with is hg shelve. Locally, I have no problem shelving changes. It all works perfectly from what I can tell. However, when I try to unshelve, I get the…

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I can't unshelve changes from one branch to another
I'm using tfpt tool for moving a shelveset from one branch to another. I've read some stackoverflow questions about it but neither seems to fit to my problem. I'm running the command like this:
tfpt unshelve "my shelveset name" /migrate…

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Unshelving changes in Visual Studio
In Visual Studio 2008, I can unshelve changes from the solution explorer context menu. It was easy back then.
Now I am using VS2015. I found that you'll be able to do this in the later versions by selecting Team Explorer > Pending changes > Actions…

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How to unshelve another developer's changes that include dlls or other binaries?
Using Team Foundation Server 2010 I am trying to unshelve a series of changes made by another developer on my team. This shelve set includes some Nuget packages which include dlls. I am receiving multiple errors along the lines of:
The item…

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How can I use Perforce Shelving to have one person create a change and another person submit it?
I want UserA to be able to create a changelist in Perforce and then Shelve it. I would then like UserB to be able to unshelve that changelist and submit it.
This sounds simple, but Perforce unshelving doesn't seem to work the way I would expect.…

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Perforce - How to remove a file from a shelved changelist?
I had added a bunch of new files into a new changelist using p4 add command. I shelved the changelist for review purpose (swarm server picks the changes from shelved changelist).
During code review, I was told to remove a file from the changelist. I…

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How can I repair a repository broken by hg unshelve?
I used hg shelve in a repository, where I had some unfinished changes because I needed to switch to a different head and perform unrelated changes.
Once my work on the other head was committed, I switched back to the head on which I had originally…

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Use "hg unshelve" like unstashing with Git
When invoking hg unshelve --keep and I get a conflict, I need to resolve the conflict and then invoke hg unshelve --continue --keep again. Why is the last step necessary? And why I can't invoke hg unshelve --continue --keep directly without…

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