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Re: diffs for all successive versions of a file?

From: <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:32:55 -0500

Benjamin Smith-Mannschott <bsmith.occs_at_gmail.com> wrote on 03/17/2008
04:53:28 PM:
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 22:00, Robert William Vesterman wrote:
> > I have a file, let's say blah.txt, which contains a line that's
> > something like:
> > xyz=37
> > In some previous versions of the file, it had different numbers
> > there. Maybe in one version, it was:
> > xyz=392384
> > And in another:
> > xyz=-9932
> > I would like to find out all values that it has ever had. Obviously
> > I can use "svn log" to find all revisions at which the file was
> > changed, and then do "svn diff -r N:M" for each successive pair.
> > However, due to the number of revisions, this would be somewhat of a
> > pain.
> >
> > So, what I would like is an easy way to automatically show all
> > changes ever on this file. I could then feed it to grep to get
> > exactly what I want. So, something like:
> > svn diffForEverySuccessiveRevision blah.txt | grep xyz
> > I could write a script to do this, based off of the "svn log" / "svn
> > diff -r N:M" method mentioned above, but I am hoping that there is
> > already an existing easy way to do it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
>
> This won't be much help, but maybe it'll jog someone elses memory:
>
> I recall reading (a few months back, somewhere on the internet) about
> a python script which did a sort of extended "svn blame", showing each
> version of every line back to the first revision of the file. Problem
> is, I can't remember what the script was called or where I read about
> it. Maybe someone else has better memory than I.

Not exactly what the author was looking for, but this is an interesting
visual implementation in java I ran across recently:

http://code.google.com/p/svn-time-lapse-view/

Kevin R.

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