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? 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? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden
