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 branching and patching ideas above are great, but they don't work well for me. I use a visual diff tool, so running git diff doesn't produce text-based patches. Our build system spins up a new environment each time a branch is created, so creating temporary "stash" branches would get messy.

Instead, I wrote a little shell script that copies a file to a "shelf" directory, adds a timestamp, and reverts the change. It's not as robust as the solutions above, but it also avoids some of the pitfalls that I ran into.