Re: diffs for all successive versions of a file?

[B Smith-Mannschott <bs...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Benjamin Smith-Mannschott <
bsmith.occs@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

The script I was thinking of back then has been found (on another thread) by
Mark Eichin:

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Mark Eichin <ei...@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://nedbatchelder.com/code/utilities/blameall_py.html
>
> is the tool I was talking about (didn't have a chance to dig it up
> from my phone when I first responded.)
>
>
// Ben Smith-Mannschott