On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 1:43 AM, Eggler, Ron (GE Energy Connections) <ron.egg...@ge.com> wrote: > Hi There, > > I am looking for the following features in svn: > > - When you do svn commit, instead of automatically submitting all > changed files in the directory, in the dialog where you enter the commit > message (if -m flag is not used), is there a feature to uncheck any files > that should not be committed/select files to be committed?
With the commandline client that's not possible at the moment (GUI clients might offer this in their commit dialog). Would be nice though. I guess the UI for 'svn' might be to edit the stuff below "--This line, and those below, will be ignored--" in your editor that comes up for the commit message. I did some archaeology and found an old discussion about this [1]. It got some support, but it seems not enough to eventually implement it. In that thread, Karl Fogel hinted there was a closed issue and earlier dev@ discussion about it, which I found here [2] (issue #1295) and here [3]. The issue also refers to a patch by Mark Grosberg ([4], [5]). His last patch submission ([5]) contains a long discussion which reads a bit "bikesheddy". Eventually it seems the discussion died and the patch did not get committed. (If you search the dev@ archives for 1295 there are earlier iterations of the patch which contain some more discussion). Maybe that last patch can be brought back to life, and re-discussed? > - Is there an option to inspect each file further line-by-line for > lines that have changed to either be selected or excluded from the commit? Ah, now that's an interesting feature that I also miss sometimes. I listed it on the whiteboard during the svn hackathon in 2015 [6], I referred to it as "partial commit". It's not possible right now with "core svn", but TortoiseSVN has implemented a way to do this with what they call "restore after commit" [7]. I think it would be great to have such a feature in SVN itself. For some more background, it has been discussed before a couple of times on our lists ([8], [9]), and on StackOverflow ([10], [11]). Someone even seems to have implemented in a script something similar to the TSVN feature [12]. > I am interested to potentially work on patches that would extend svn with > the above functionality if not present already, does anyone know? It seems > like these options would be really useful… I think it would be great if you could work on this. We're mostly a volunteer-driven project these days, so helping hands are always welcome. If you want to discuss specs or design, or start writing / discussing patches, it's best to bring those to the dev@ mailinglist (and take a look at our Community Guide [13]). [1] https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-06/0557.shtml [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-1295 (Ability to edit the list of files being commited) [3] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2002-01/0715.shtml [4] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-05/0709.shtml [5] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2003-05/0904.shtml [6] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2015-09/0187.shtml -- see "( partial commit (one hunk out of many) (-> TortoiseSVN?) )" [7] https://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-commit.html#tsvn-dug-commit-restore [8] https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-07/0817.shtml [9] https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-01/0287.shtml [10] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75809/partial-commits-with-subversion [11] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/314132/is-there-some-way-to-commit-a-file-partially-in-tortoisesvn [12] http://webstaff.itn.liu.se/~karlu20/div/blog/2013-05-31_SVNPartialCommit.php [13] http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/ -- Johan (Going for the record of most footnotes in an svn-mailinglist-post)