diff --git a/mercurial/shelve.py b/mercurial/shelve.py
--- a/mercurial/shelve.py
+++ b/mercurial/shelve.py
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@
             if shfile.exists():
                 shfile.movetobackup()
         cleanupoldbackups(repo)
-def unshelvecontinue(ui, repo, state, opts, basename=None):
+def unshelvecontinue(ui, repo, state, opts, basename):
     """subcommand to continue an in-progress unshelve"""
     # We're finishing off a merge. First parent is our original
     # parent, second is the temporary "fake" commit we're unshelving.
@@ -727,15 +727,8 @@
         with repo.ui.configoverride(overrides, 'unshelve'):
             with repo.dirstate.parentchange():
                 repo.setparents(state.parents[0], nodemod.nullid)
-                if not interactive:
-                    ispartialunshelve = False
-                    newnode = repo.commit(text=shelvectx.description(),
-                                        extra=shelvectx.extra(),
-                                        user=shelvectx.user(),
-                                        date=shelvectx.date())
-                else:
-                    newnode, ispartialunshelve = _dounshelveinteractive(ui,
-                        repo, shelvectx, basename, opts)
+                newnode, ispartialunshelve = _createunshelvectx(ui,
+                        repo, shelvectx, basename, interactive, opts)
 
         if newnode is None:
             # If it ended up being a no-op commit, then the normal
@@ -755,10 +748,10 @@
         mergefiles(ui, repo, state.wctx, shelvectx)
         restorebranch(ui, repo, state.branchtorestore)
 
+        if not phases.supportinternal(repo):
+            repair.strip(ui, repo, state.nodestoremove, backup=False,
+                         topic='shelve')
         if not ispartialunshelve:
-            if not phases.supportinternal(repo):
-                repair.strip(ui, repo, state.nodestoremove, backup=False,
-                            topic='shelve')
             shelvedstate.clear(repo)
             unshelvecleanup(ui, repo, state.name, opts)
         _restoreactivebookmark(repo, state.activebookmark)
@@ -810,14 +803,25 @@
 
     return repo, shelvectx
 
-def _dounshelveinteractive(ui, repo, shelvectx, basename, opts):
-    """The user might want to unshelve certain changes only from the stored
-    shelve. So, we would create two commits. One with requested changes to
-    unshelve at that time and the latter is shelved for future.
+def _createunshelvectx(ui, repo, shelvectx, basename, interactive, opts):
+    """Creates a commit ctx to unshelve interactively or non-interactively.
+    The user might want to unshelve certain changes only from the stored
+    shelve in interactive. So, we would create two commits. One with requested
+    changes to unshelve at that time and the latter is shelved for future.
+
+    Here, we return both the newnode which is created interactively and a
+    bool to know whether the shelve is partly done or completely done.
     """
     opts['message'] = shelvectx.description()
     opts['interactive-unshelve'] = True
     pats = []
+    if not interactive:
+        newnode = repo.commit(text=shelvectx.description(),
+                              extra=shelvectx.extra(),
+                              user=shelvectx.user(),
+                              date=shelvectx.date())
+        return newnode, False
+
     commitfunc = getcommitfunc(shelvectx.extra(), interactive=True,
                                editor=True)
     newnode = cmdutil.dorecord(ui, repo, commitfunc, None, False,
@@ -826,9 +830,9 @@
     snode = repo.commit(text=shelvectx.description(),
                         extra=shelvectx.extra(),
                         user=shelvectx.user(),
-                        date=shelvectx.date())
-    m = scmutil.matchfiles(repo, repo[snode].files())
+                        date=opts.get('date'))
     if snode:
+        m = scmutil.matchfiles(repo, repo[snode].files())
         _shelvecreatedcommit(repo, snode, basename, m)
 
     return newnode, bool(snode)
@@ -868,15 +872,8 @@
 
         with repo.dirstate.parentchange():
             repo.setparents(tmpwctx.node(), nodemod.nullid)
-            if not interactive:
-                ispartialunshelve = False
-                newnode = repo.commit(text=shelvectx.description(),
-                                      extra=shelvectx.extra(),
-                                      user=shelvectx.user(),
-                                      date=shelvectx.date())
-            else:
-                newnode, ispartialunshelve = _dounshelveinteractive(ui, repo,
-                                                shelvectx, basename, opts)
+            newnode, ispartialunshelve = _createunshelvectx(ui, repo,
+                                            shelvectx, basename, interactive, opts)
 
         if newnode is None:
             # If it ended up being a no-op commit, then the normal