Subversion: ignore modifications to a file locally on one client only

Question

Is it possible to ignore changes to a file in subversion locally on one client only, without propagating the ignore to the whole repository?

The particular problem I

Answer 1

Use svn export to export the file so it's not under version control.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/re10.html

edit: However I believe this has to be done on a per-directory basis, so you'd have to reorganise your files somewhat.

I can't test this at the moment, but would a sparse checkout help you here?

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.sparsedirs.html