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History of a line?

From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch_at_stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2006-02-05 14:34:34 CET

Is there a relatively easy way to get the history of a particular line
(or small group of lines) of source? That is, what I'd like to see is
the information that would be in the log for that file, but filtered so
that only changes affecting particular lines are shown; it be nice to
see the diffs for each of the modifications, but only those that affect
the section of interest.

The use is this: I'm trying to fix a bug in some obscure code in a
project I'm working on. I'm hoping the history of that section of code
will throw some light on what the intentions were.

I can use svn blame to find when the section of code was last modified,
then use it again for the modification before that, etc., but it's
really tedious, and I have to separately look at the log to see the
commit messages for those changes. (So far I've tracked backwards
through about 5 modifications over 6 years, all of which look like they
were incidental formatting changes. I suspect the commit messages
aren't going to help me with this one, but I've wanted to do this
before; this is just a particularly aggravating instance of it.)

Duncan Murdoch

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