SVN Commit specific files

Question

Is there any way to commit only a list of specific files (e.q. just one of the list of files that SVN wants to commit).

I\'m working on MAC OS X under Terminal, without

Answer 1

You basically put the files you want to commit on the command line

svn ci file1 file2 dir1/file3

Answer 2

Sure. Just list the files:

$ svn ci -m "Fixed all those horrible crashes" foo bar baz graphics/logo.png

I'm not aware of a way to tell it to ignore a certain set of files. Of course, if the files you do want to commit are easily listed by the shell, you can use that:

$ svn ci -m "No longer sets printer on fire" printer-driver/*.c

You can also have the svn command read the list of files to commit from a file:

$ svn ci -m "Now works" --targets fix4711.txt

Answer 3

Use changelists. The advantage over specifying files is that you can visualize and confirm everything you wanted is actually included before you commit.

$ svn changelist fix-issue-237 foo.c 
Path 'foo.c' is now a member of changelist 'fix-issue-237'.

That done, svn now keeps things separate for you. This helps when you're juggling multiple changes

$ svn status
A       bar.c
A       baz.c

--- Changelist 'fix-issue-237':
A       foo.c

Finally, tell it to commit what you wanted changed.

$ svn commit --changelist fix-issue-237 -m "Issue 237"

Answer 4

try this script..

#!/bin/bash
NULL="_"
for f in `svn st|grep -v ^\?|sed s/.\ *//`; 
     do LIST="${LIST} $f $NULL on"; 
done
dialog --checklist "Select files to commit" 30 60 30 $LIST 2>/tmp/svnlist.txt
svn ci `cat /tmp/svnlist.txt|sed 's/"//g'`

Answer 5

Besides listing the files explicitly as shown by unwind and Wienczny, you can setup change lists and checkin these. These allow you to manage disjunct sets of changes to the same working copy.

You can read about them in the online version of the excellent SVN book.

Answer 6

I make a (sub)folder named "hide", move the file I don't want committed to there. Then do my commit, ignoring complaint about the missing file. Then move the hidden file from hide back to ./

I know of no downside to this tactic.