Shelve in TortoiseSVN?

Question

I\'ve moved from TFS to SVN (TortoiseSVN) with my current company. I really miss the \"Shelve\" feature of TFS. I\'ve read various articles on how to \"Shelve\" with SVN, but I\

Answer 1

You can use a DVCS but in a way this is a kludge. 'Shelving' in a DVCS stores your changes locally only. Its useful only if you want to checkpoint your work to rollback if you break it with further work, but preferably you'd want to save your work on the server.

One way to do this in SVN without an explicit shelve command is to switch your working copy to a different svn location and commit there instead of on your main repo. This is effectively like creating a temporary branch and working on that for the duration of your work. I don't think you'll even have to merge as SVN will do it for you when you switch, as your local modifications will be kept.

Unfortunately, you cannot switch to a non-existent location, so the first time you do this, you'll have to create the 'branch' to shelve to. I guess the whole thing could be automated.