Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To remove from, or as from, a shelf.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To remove from, or as from, a shelf.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To remove from a shelf.
  • verb figuratively, transitive To bring back something that was shelved, or put aside.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

un- +‎ shelve

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Examples

  • DiffSegments, you will need to unshelve the shelved file (fileA) and download the latest from server (fileB) to disk first, then diff them using the following call:

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • In addition to the major new features I listed in the post above (Team Members, Windows Shell Extension, Power Shell support, and Custom component download, tfpt unshelve / undo and BPA improvements), we have added a couple of new things.

    MSDN Blogs 2008

  • People complain that after they have unshelved changes and reviewed them, there is no good way to remove the changes from their local workspace (they may have their own commingled changes they want to keep). tfpt unshelve / undo will show up in the next Power Tools release and will do what it sounds like.

    MSDN Blogs 2008

  • People complain that after they have unshelved changes and reviewed them, there is no good way to remove the changes from their local workspace (they may have their own commingled changes they want to keep). tfpt unshelve / undo will show up in the next Power Tools release and will do what it sounds like.

    MSDN Blogs 2008

  • In addition to the "big" features I've just covered and the standard plethora of bug fixes that we always include in every Power Tools release, there are other smaller features worth calling out. tfpt unshelve / undo - People often use shelvesets to do code reviews.

    MSDN Blogs 2008

  • Sometimes they want to unshelve them to be able to review them carefully.

    MSDN Blogs 2008

  • In addition to the "big" features I've just covered and the standard plethora of bug fixes that we always include in every Power Tools release, there are other smaller features worth calling out. tfpt unshelve / undo - People often use shelvesets to do code reviews.

    MSDN Blogs 2008

  • How do you get rid of pending adds (because tf undo doesn't delete the local file when you undo and add for fear it might be deleting something you want to keep). tfpt unshelve / undo to the rescue!

    MSDN Blogs 2008

  • How do you get rid of pending adds (because tf undo doesn't delete the local file when you undo and add for fear it might be deleting something you want to keep). tfpt unshelve / undo to the rescue!

    MSDN Blogs 2008

  • Sometimes they want to unshelve them to be able to review them carefully.

    MSDN Blogs 2008

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