howto push uncommited changes to some unapplied patch?

[Christian Boos]

Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
> 2009/12/1 Dilip M <dilipm79 at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have some 3 patches in queue and I have done hg qpop -a. I have done some
>> change to a file, which has to be incorporated in some of the patch in queue.
>>
>> qnew -f will only force those changes to go into _new_ patch. But how can in
>> push those uncommitted changes into one of the patch in queue?
>>     
>
> You can qnew -f to create a new change, reorder the patch series, and
> fold the newly created patch with the target patch?
>
> aka :
>   $ hg qser
>   before
>   target
>   after
>   $ hg st
> (changes you want into "target")
>   $ hg qnew -f will_fold_this
>   $ hg qpop
>   patch queue now empty
>
> Now reorder the serie to have the patch just after the target:
>
>   $ $EDITOR .hg/patches/series
>
> change from:
> will_fold_this
> before
> target
> after
>
> to:
>
> before
> target
> will_fold_this
> after
>
> Save, quit.
> Now push up to the target patch:
>   $ hg qgoto target
> And fold will_fold_this into target:
>   $ hg qfold will_fold_this
>   

While I still often do the above out of habit, the attic extension can 
be useful here:

hg shelve
hg qgoto target
hg unshelve
hg qref

-- Christian