Question

When reverting files that have been modified locally, is there a way to exclude files? Due to circumstances beyond my control, my current workflow is to:

1. Create a diff of files I want to include
2. svn status to get a list of modifications
3. svn revert, copypasting the files that were included in the diff
4. rm’ing leftovers – i.e. added files not under version control

What I’m after would look something like

svn revert -R --exclude file1 --exclude file2 /my/path

Answer 1

Using changelists.

Tag all files as to_revert:
$ svn changelist to_revert -R /my/path

Untag some files:
$ svn changelist --remove file1 file2

Revert only tagged files:
$ svn revert --changelist to_revert -R /my/path