Shelf tab

Show Diff Ctrl+D

Choose this option to open the Diff Viewer for files and compare the shelved version of a file with its current local version.

Unshelve Silently Ctrl+Alt+U

Click this icon to unshelve changes silently, without displaying the Unshelve Changes dialog.

Create Patch

Choose this option to create a patch file based on shelved changes. In the Create Patch dialog that opens, specify the file to save the patch in, and the changes to create a patch from. By default, all changes from the shelf are selected. To view which changes are included, click the Selected link.

For more information, refer to Use patches.

Show/Hide already unshelved

Click this button to have MPS show or hide all available shelved changes, both already applied and not. Note that this button is duplicated From the context menu.

Preview Diff

Click this icon to compare the shelved version of the selected file with its local version in the Preview pane.

Clean Already Unshelved

Click this icon to explicitly remove all unshelved changes if you are not going to reuse them.

Shelf Settings

Click this icon to jump to the Shelf settings page where you can modify the default shelf location, and enable automatic shelving of base revisions of files for Git.

Unshelve

Ctrl+Shift+U

Choose this option to apply changes from the selected shelf. In the Unshelve Changes dialog that opens, specify the changelist you want to add the changes to. For more information, refer to Shelve or stash changes.

Restore

Choose this option to re-activate the unshelved changes. By default, unshelved changes are no longer shown in the list of available shelved changes, therefore you first need to have MPS display it by choosing Show Already Unshelved. You can restore any change as many times as you need until the change is permanently removed by choosing Delete. For more information, refer to Shelve or stash changes.

Show Diff

Ctrl+D

Choose this option to open the Diff Viewer for files and compare the shelved version of a file with its current local version.

Compare with Local

Choose this option to compare the shelved version of the selected file with its local version in the Diff Viewer for files.

Create Patch

Choose this option to create a patch file based on shelved changes. In the Create Patch dialog that opens, specify the file to save the patch in, and the changes to create a patch from. By default, all changes from the shelf are selected. To view which changes are included, click the Selected link.

For more information, refer to Use patches.

Import Patches

Choose this option to apply patches created externally or through MPS. In the dialog that opens, choose the files to import patches from. The imported patches are treated as shelved changes and are shown in the Shelf tab where you can unshelve them at any time.

Rename

Shift+F6

Choose this option to modify the name of the selected shelved changelist.

Delete

Delete

Choose this option to permanently delete the selected shelved change. You can remove any change no matter whether it has been already unshelved or not. For more information, refer to Shelve or stash changes.

Show Already Unshelved

Choose this option to have MPS show all available shelved changes, both already applied and not. By default, unshelved changes are hidden. For more information, refer to Shelve or stash changes.

Clean Already Unshelved

Click this icon to explicitly remove all unshelved changes if you are not going to reuse them.