[snip] > > - When you do svn commit, instead of automatically submitting all > > changed files in the directory, in the dialog where you enter the > > commit message (if -m flag is not used), is there a feature to uncheck > > any files that should not be committed/select files to be committed? > > With the commandline client that's not possible at the moment (GUI > clients might offer this in their commit dialog). Would be nice though. I > guess the UI for 'svn' might be to edit the stuff below "--This line, and > those below, will be ignored--" in your editor that comes up for the commit > message. > > I did some archaeology and found an old discussion about this [1]. It got > some support, but it seems not enough to eventually implement it. > In that thread, Karl Fogel hinted there was a closed issue and earlier dev@ > discussion about it, which I found here [2] (issue #1295) and here [3]. > > The issue also refers to a patch by Mark Grosberg ([4], [5]). His last patch > submission ([5]) contains a long discussion which reads a bit "bikesheddy". > Eventually it seems the discussion died and the patch did not get > committed. (If you search the dev@ archives for 1295 there are earlier > iterations of the patch which contain some more discussion). > > Maybe that last patch can be brought back to life, and re-discussed? > > > - Is there an option to inspect each file further line-by-line for > > lines that have changed to either be selected or excluded from the > commit? > > Ah, now that's an interesting feature that I also miss sometimes. I listed it > on the whiteboard during the svn hackathon in 2015 [6], I referred to it as > "partial commit". It's not possible right now with "core svn", but > TortoiseSVN has implemented a way to do this with what they call "restore > after commit" [7]. > > I think it would be great to have such a feature in SVN itself. > > For some more background, it has been discussed before a couple of times > on our lists ([8], [9]), and on StackOverflow ([10], [11]). > Someone even seems to have implemented in a script something similar to > the TSVN feature [12]. > > > I am interested to potentially work on patches that would extend svn > > with the above functionality if not present already, does anyone know? > > It seems like these options would be really useful… > > I think it would be great if you could work on this. We're mostly a > volunteer-driven project these days, so helping hands are always welcome. > If you want to discuss specs or design, or start writing / discussing patches, > it's best to bring those to the dev@ mailinglist (and take a look at our > Community Guide [13]). > > > [1] https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-06/0557.shtml > > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-1295 (Ability to edit the list > of files being commited) > > [3] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2002-01/0715.shtml > > [4] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-05/0709.shtml > > [5] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-05/0904.shtml > > [6] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2015-09/0187.shtml -- see "( partial > commit (one hunk out of many) (-> TortoiseSVN?) )" > > [7] https://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug- > commit.html#tsvn-dug-commit-restore > > [8] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-07/0817.shtml > > [9] https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-01/0287.shtml > > [10] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75809/partial-commits-with- > subversion > > [11] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/314132/is-there-some-way-to- > commit-a-file-partially-in-tortoisesvn > > [12] http://webstaff.itn.liu.se/~karlu20/div/blog/2013-05- > 31_SVNPartialCommit.php > > [13] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/ > Your response is packed with very interesting information and resources, it will take me some time to work through all of it but I'm definitely interested in a follow up. Thanks Johan! -- Ron
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