Shannon, You can accomplish this goal indirectly with Subversion. You could check out the committed version of the file to a different location, check out an older copy of the entire site, or use the branching feature, make the change to that other copy of the file/site, then commit that other file without impacting the current development directory. I've done this sort of thing many times. An alternative is that the developer can comment out the code that is not ready to commit, then uncomment the code when development on it restarts. Another alternative is to move the current development copy of the file to a different directory outside of the site, download the version from source control to modify it, then when that modification is complete and checked in, use a diff tool to merge the two files.
I am not aware of any source control tool that lets you directly pick individual lines of code to commit. -Mike Chabot On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Shannon Rhodes <[email protected]>wrote: > > I've been charged with choosing versioning software for our team, and I'd > like to recommend Subversion but there's a developer who wants a feature > that I'm not sure Subversion (or other versioning tools) can accommodate: > partial commits. For example, you may be working on a project where you've > touched a lot of code that is not ready for check-in, but then a high > priority change comes across your desk that requires you to make an > unrelated change to one of these files and check it in. He wants to be able > to pick and choose which lines of a changed file get checked in. Is that > possible with any versioning tool?? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:346365 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
