Re: Command to list all revisions (with date?) when a particular was modified?

At Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:32:55 +0100 [email protected] wrote:

> 
> I am hunting for when a particular change was made in a file under version
> control. It happened years ago.
> 
> The versioning system was migrated from CVSNT to Subversion back in 2017 and the
> old CVS repository was imported into SVN with all branches and tags etc
> available.
> 
> The change I am looking for should have happened back in 2004 when the property
> behind what I am hunting for was changed but I cannot find any message about
> this in my archives...
> 
> So now I am looking for *when* a particular section of a source file was changed
> so I would like to list all revisions when this file had a commit to it at all.
> 
> Then I will extract the revisions in a binary fashion to find when exactly the
> change that should have been done in 2004 was actually done.
> 
> Can this be done somehow using the command line interface to svn?
> If so what would be the correct command to issue?

svn log <path>

svn help log

> 
> 
> I need to get a list of the revisions where the file was changed.
> 
> I tried reading the redbean documentation on line but I am not sure I understand
> the way the export works for different revisions of the same file.
> 
> The way I understand svn the revision when you export/checkout a file at a
> specific rev number is the file as it existed at the time that revision was
> committed. So even if the file did not change during that revision there will be
> an exported file if I use the -r argument, right?
> 
> So I need to start by some command to give me the revision numbers when the
> specific file *actually changed*. So I can focus on the commits when this file
> changed instead of getting lots of the same file because the revisions were done
> because something else changed..
> 
> Can that be done?
> 

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