svn feature addition?

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> > - 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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