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Arun Sudhakaran
Arun Sudhakaran

Reputation: 2405

How to search and list all SVN history of a file based on the change of a particular portion in that file

Suppose a file with 5000 line of code is committed to SVN more than 50 times. Somewhere in that commit history some code was added like and subject.is_theory_practical='B' as a part of a query.

Now I want to know who committed that file and when it was committed. In eclipse I can right click on the file and take option called Team and then select sub option called Show History, which will list all the commit history of that file - user, date, comment etc.

But I have to individually search on individual history to find the change that I'm looking for. I tried this one SVN display latest file revision by filename and file contents but I didn't find it helpful. So is there any way that I can give the above mentioned portion of the code and conduct a search on SVN, so that I can get only the list of history where that code was either added or removed?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 484

Answers (1)

uzsolt
uzsolt

Reputation: 6037

I think you want to use svn blame -v FILENAME: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svn.c.blame.html

Show author and revision information inline for the specified files or URLs. Each line of text is annotated at the beginning with the author (username) and the revision number for the last change to that line.

You can filter its output with grep, sed or similar tool.

Upvotes: 1

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