I\'ve committed changes in numerous files to a SVN repository from Eclipse.
I then go to website directory on the linux box where I want to update these changes from
In theory you could make all your changes in a branch which you created for your own use. You would then be reasonably sure that you were the only one committing to it.
IMHO feature development should be done like this.
Then you could update this target machine from this branch instead of from the trunk.