> Incidentally, using shelve in hg is the only way I've ever lost work in a VCS (I've made the same error in git as well, but a dropped stash can be found again

> Incidentally, using shelve in hg is the only way I've ever lost work in a VCS (I've made the same error in git as well, but a dropped stash can be found again). At least today there is .hg/shelve-backup/