Is there a blame/annotate for RCS on windows?

Question

I am accessing some source code controlled in RCS on Windows.

How can I find out in which revision particular lines of source code were last changed? The feature is variously called 'blame' or 'annotate' depending on the VCS.

The http://blame.sourceforge.net/ project sounds like its Linux only.

Answer 1

CVS and RCS use the same file format.

Install CVS, create an empty CVS repository, manually copy the RCS *,v file(s) into the CVS repository, and run cvs annotate.

See also this question: How to install CVS in Windows 7.

Answer 2

No, there is no built-in functionality. As an alternative, here are some workarounds:

• Emacs Version Control
• Emacs RCS
• Tcl RCS