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

I always keep a second checkout, which I call "trunk_clean". Whenever I need to do a quick, isolated change related to what I am doing, I just commit on that checkout instead.