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
Add all files to a changelist and then remove the files you do not want to commit. Finally commit the changelist as shown below:
$ svn status
M file01
M ...
M file100
M file_not_ready_for_commit
// This will add all working copy files, can be adjusted to add only relevant files
$ svn changelist mychangelist -R .
// Remove the nascent one(s)
$ svn changelist mychangelist --remove file_not_ready_for_commit
// Commit only the files in the changelist
$ svn commit --changelist mychangelist
Source of above information is this blog which also has a link to http://svnbook.red-bean.com for further details. All credits to the author of the blog.