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

Based on the Walter's answer I have created the following aliases in my bashrc file:

alias svn.stash='read -p "saving local changes in raq.patch. Existing stash in raq.patch will be overwritten. Continue?[y/N]" && [[ $REPLY =~ ^[yY] ]] && rm -f raq.patch && svn diff > raq.patch && svn revert -R .'
alias svn.stash.apply='patch -p0 < raq.patch; rm -f raq.patch'

These aliases are much easier to use and remember.

Usage:

svn.stash to stash changes and svn.stash.apply to apply stash.