Question

Is there a way to do a selective commit from command-line?

I would like to commit some, but not all of the modified files. I’m thinking in the lines of parsing the output of svn status.

Answer 1

You could put the files you’re working on in a changelist:

Subversion’s changelist support allows
you to create changelists by applying
labels to files you want to be
associated with that changelist,
remove those labels, and limit the
scope of the files on which its
subcommands operate to only those
bearing a particular label.

This way, you can go about your work, and when you type SVN commands (e.g. svn diff, svn st, svn ci, etc.), you can specify a changelist and only those files in the changelist will be worked on.