That does sound bad, but is it really necessary to check in individual files? This is what a RCS is all about for me - if I check in the wrong file, I can just go "whoops, revert".

How do I know I checked a bad file in? My testing procedures will catch it, of course :)

My SVN client offers me a list of files to approve before I check them in. It's graphical, but I'm happy to cope with that since I only run it once a day. Perhaps that shows what I'm doing wrong.