Temporarily put away uncommitted changes in Subversion (a la “git-stash”)

Question

While programming software stored in a Subversion repo, I often modify some files, then notice that I\'d like to do some preparatory change for my main work. E.g. while impl

Answer 1

When I've got uncommitted changes from one task in my working copy and I need to switch to another task, I do one of two things:

1. Check out a new working copy for the second task.

   or

2. Start a branch:

   workingcopy$ svn copy CURRENT_URL_OF_WORKING_COPY SOME_BRANCH
   workingcopy$ svn switch SOME_BRANCH
   workingcopy$ svn commit -m "work in progress"
   workingcoyp$ svn switch WHATEVER_I_WAS_WORKING_ON_BEFORE
   

I have some scripts that help to automate this.