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Feature request: svn log constrained by line range

From: Joel Polowin <jpolowin_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 02:50:49 +0000

Hi, all.  This is my first post to this list, but I've been a member
on many others.

I'd like to make a feature/enhancement suggestion for svn. Would you
please let me know how I might do that? Or of course I'd be happy if
someone can tell me how to do what I want with the existing features,
though a couple of people in my group who are more experienced than
I am with svn haven't been able to figure out how it might be done.

In case posting to this list is sufficient... I'd like to be able
to specify a line range for a file so that _svn log filename_ would
show the change log for only those lines, allowing for the movements
of the first and last lines through the file's history. So if my file
'blargh' has a function which currently begins at line 1500 and ends at
line 1800, the command "svn log blargh --lines 1500:1800" would give
me the commit messages for that function even if that block of lines
was originally added to occupy, say, lines 2700 to 3500. And wouldn't
report the messages for commits that didn't touch that block of lines.

This would help to resolve a conflict in my work group regarding good
practises for code documentation. :-(

Thanks,
Joel
Received on 2017-04-07 04:50:58 CEST

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