strip -f doesn't exist?

[j w]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> j w wrote:
>> What I'm really trying to accomplish is to turn an mq patch into local changes.
>
> Why would you want to do this? You know about qrefresh and qdelete -r,
> right? The documentation for strip has been fixed in crew, I think.
>

I believe I was trying to use mq as a "poor man's shelve" (or pickle,
or whatever you want to call it).
I had some local changes, but then needed to work on a hot bug.
So I dumped the changes into a patch in mq, fixed the bug, then wanted
to get back to the state I was in before.
But it was not so easy (:

Of course, there are other ways to tackle the problem, this just
seemed handy at the time, but didn't work out how I expected.

Actually, I never expected strip to care about local changes at all -
anybody know why that restriction is in place?

-John