How do I avoid checking in local changes to the SVN repository?

Question

I have to make local changes to my project files in order to get it to run in a different environment. Twice now I accidentally checked those changes in (and messed up ever

Answer 1

When I have a situation like this, I add the files that I do not want to check in to a change set labelled "DO NOT CHECK IN". My SVN client (SmartSVN, although Tortoise does also suuprt this) can then be set to ignore that change set, meaning that I don't accidentally check in those changes.

The only downside to this is when you have made changes to files in the change set that you do actually want to check in - you then have to manually remember to check them in.