Subversion: prevent local modifications to one file from being committed?

Question

I have a Subversion working copy where I made some local modifications to one file. The modifications are only relevant to me, I do not want to commit them. (The version in

Answer 1

Lock certainly isn't what you want, and I don't think any of the built in features will do it for you.

Depending on which environment you are working in, I'd write a script that:

1. Gets the list of files
2. Removes the ones I don't want to commit
3. Commits the files

Something along the lines of:

svn status | grep ^M | grep -v exclude.c | awk -F' ' '{print $2}' | xargs svn ci -m "I'm committing something"

Or if the list of files is really static, just fix the list!