Partial Commits with Subversion

Question

Given the case I made two independent changes in one file: eg. added a new method and changed another method.

I often don\'t want to commit

Answer 1

I used to do this:

• In my editor (I use vim), edit the file so that only one of the changes appear
• Save the file (but don't quit the editor)
• Commit the changed file to svn
• Hit "undo" in the editor enough times for the second set of changes reappear
• Save the file again
• Commit the second set of changes.

This is a simplistic approach that assumes one set of changes is reasonably easy to undo. For more complex situations, I would give up and commit both changes without worrying about it.

Now that I use git, this is something I hope I'll never have to do again!