How do I put a bunch of uncommitted changes aside while working on something else

Question

If I have a bunch of uncommitted changes and want to set it aside while working on something else instead, and then later (f.i. after several days) come back to it and proceed w

Answer 1

To keep local uncommited changes, easiest way for me is just to save them as a patch file.

hg diff > /tmp/`hg id -i`.patch

and when you need to return to previous state:

hg up 
hg patch --no-commit /tmp/.patch