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

The easiest way would be to use a temporary branch, like this:

$ svn copy ^/trunk ^/branches/tempbranch
$ svn switch ^/branches/tempbranch
$ svn commit -m "Stashed"
$ svn switch ^/trunk
$ ... hack away in trunk ...
$ svn commit -m "..."
$ svn merge ^/branches/tempbranch .
$ svn rm ^/branches/tempbranch
$ ... continue hacking

This could (and probably should) be put in a script if done on a more regular basis.