Can I commit only parts of my code using SVN or Mercurial?

Question

I use Tortoise SVN usuallly, but I have been looking into Mercurial since it is a distributed revision control system.

What I am looking for, in both systems, is a tool

Answer 1

Mercurial now provides an option --interactive (or -i) to the commit command, which enables this functionality right out of the box.

This works directly from the command-line so it's perfect if you are a command-line enthusiast!

Running

> hg commit -i

begins an interactive session which allows examination, editing and recording of individual changes to create a commit.

This behaves very similarly to the --patch and --interactive options for the git add and git commit commands.