What is the Mercurial(hg) equivalent of git stash?

Temporarily putting away your changes:

Mercurial hg commit [-s] is preferred hg shelve is not recommended

Git git stash

Listing changes put away

Mercurial hg xl or hg shelve -l

Git git stash list

Viewing a put-away change

Mercurial hg diff -c <rev> or hg shelve -p <name>

Git git stash show <name>

Restoring put-away changes

Mercurial hg uncommit --no-keep or hg unshelve

Git git stash pop

Restoring put-away changes but keeping them in the stack

Mercurial Continue to amend or hg uncommit --keep or hg unshelve --keep

Git git stash apply

I use the mq extension for this (which is not enabled by default). This extensions gives me the possibility to have a set of (not yet finished) patches, I keep on top of the "official" history.

What you would do with git stash is now hg qnew »patchname« && hg qpop, git stash pop now becomes hg qpush. The biggest directly noticeable difference is, that you have to give your patch a name in mercurial, while the git variant is happy to live anonymously.

Steve Losh did a more in depth article what this extension also can do.