How commit all files except one with SVN

Question

I want to commit all modified files except one using Subversion.

So here is the scenario:

$ svn st M    file1 M    file2 M    file3 M    file4 

I can do something like this:

svn ci -m "Commit 1" file1 file2 file3 svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4 

But when a large number of files, I'm trying to simplify my work:

svn ci -m "Commit 1" `svn st | awk '{print $2}' | grep -v file4` svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4 

This solution is very fragile, because this scenario not works:

$ svn st M    file1 M    file2 D    file3 A +  file4 

I think that SVN does not have a built-in solution for my problem, but I'm not sure. Any other approach?

Answer 1

Option 1, AWK:

svn ci -m "Commit 1" `svn st | awk '{print $NF}' | grep -v file4` svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4 

Option 2, --targets:

svn ci -m "Commit 1" --targets filesToCommit.txt svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4 

Option 3, --changelist:

svn changelist my-changelist file1 file2 file3 svn ci -m "Commit 1" --changelist my-changelist svn ci -m "Commit 2" file4 

Answer 2

You can do it like this:

svn diff file4 > tmp.patch svn revert file4 svn ci -m "Commit 1" svn patch tmp.patch 

At this point all files are commited except file4