How can I view all historical changes to a file in SVN

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I know that I can  svn diff -r a b repo  to view the changes between the two specified revisions   What I d like is a diff for every revision that changed the file   Is such a command available

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If you want to see whole history of a file with code changes    svn log --diff  path to file   gt  log txt

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Start with  svn log -q file   grep   r    cut -f1 -d      That will get you a list of revisions where the file changed  which you can then use to script repeated calls to svn diff

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If you want to see whole history of a file with code changes    svn log --diff  path to file   gt  log txt

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Start with  svn log -q file   grep   r    cut -f1 -d      That will get you a list of revisions where the file changed  which you can then use to script repeated calls to svn diff

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As far as I know there is no built in svn command to accomplish this   You would need to write a script to run several commands to build all the diffs   A simpler approach would be to use a GUI svn client if that is an option   Many of them such as the subversive plugin for Eclipse will list the history of a file as well as allow you to view the diff of each revision

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Slightly different from what you described  but I think this might be what you actually need   svn blame filename   It will print the file with each line prefixed by the time and author of the commit that last changed it

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There s no built-in command for it  so I usually just do something like this      bin bash    history of file     Outputs the full history of a given file as a sequence of   logentry diff pairs   The first revision of the file is emitted as   full text since there s not previous version to compare it to   function history of file         url  1   current url of file     svn log -q  url   grep -E -e   r   digit      -o   cut -c2-   sort -n              first revision as full text         echo         read r         svn log -r r  url HEAD         svn cat -r r  url HEAD         echo          remaining revisions as differences to previous revision         while read r         do             echo             svn log -r r  url HEAD             svn diff -c r  url HEAD             echo         done           Then  you can call it with   history of file  1

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You could use git-svn to import the repository into a Git repository  then use git log -p filename  This shows each log entry for the file followed by the corresponding diff

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I ve seen a bunch of partial answers while researching this topic  This is what worked for me and hope it helps others  This command will display output on the command line  showing the revision number  author  revision timestamp and changes made   svn blame -v  lt filename gt    To make your search easier  you can write the output to a file and grep for what you re looking for

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As far as I know there is no built in svn command to accomplish this   You would need to write a script to run several commands to build all the diffs   A simpler approach would be to use a GUI svn client if that is an option   Many of them such as the subversive plugin for Eclipse will list the history of a file as well as allow you to view the diff of each revision

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There s no built-in command for it  so I usually just do something like this      bin bash    history of file     Outputs the full history of a given file as a sequence of   logentry diff pairs   The first revision of the file is emitted as   full text since there s not previous version to compare it to   function history of file         url  1   current url of file     svn log -q  url   grep -E -e   r   digit      -o   cut -c2-   sort -n              first revision as full text         echo         read r         svn log -r r  url HEAD         svn cat -r r  url HEAD         echo          remaining revisions as differences to previous revision         while read r         do             echo             svn log -r r  url HEAD             svn diff -c r  url HEAD             echo         done           Then  you can call it with   history of file  1

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Start with  svn log -q file   grep   r    cut -f1 -d      That will get you a list of revisions where the file changed  which you can then use to script repeated calls to svn diff

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You could use git-svn to import the repository into a Git repository  then use git log -p filename  This shows each log entry for the file followed by the corresponding diff

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As far as I know there is no built in svn command to accomplish this   You would need to write a script to run several commands to build all the diffs   A simpler approach would be to use a GUI svn client if that is an option   Many of them such as the subversive plugin for Eclipse will list the history of a file as well as allow you to view the diff of each revision

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The oddly named  blame  command does this   If you use Tortoise  it gives you a  from revision  dialog  then a file listing with a line by line indicator of Revision number and author next to it   If you right click on the revision info  you can bring up a  Show log  dialog that gives full checkin information  along with other files that were part of the checkin

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You could use git-svn to import the repository into a Git repository  then use git log -p filename  This shows each log entry for the file followed by the corresponding diff

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There s no built-in command for it  so I usually just do something like this      bin bash    history of file     Outputs the full history of a given file as a sequence of   logentry diff pairs   The first revision of the file is emitted as   full text since there s not previous version to compare it to   function history of file         url  1   current url of file     svn log -q  url   grep -E -e   r   digit      -o   cut -c2-   sort -n              first revision as full text         echo         read r         svn log -r r  url HEAD         svn cat -r r  url HEAD         echo          remaining revisions as differences to previous revision         while read r         do             echo             svn log -r r  url HEAD             svn diff -c r  url HEAD             echo         done           Then  you can call it with   history of file  1

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You could use git-svn to import the repository into a Git repository  then use git log -p filename  This shows each log entry for the file followed by the corresponding diff

User · Answer

Start with  svn log -q file   grep   r    cut -f1 -d      That will get you a list of revisions where the file changed  which you can then use to script repeated calls to svn diff

User · Answer

Slightly different from what you described  but I think this might be what you actually need   svn blame filename   It will print the file with each line prefixed by the time and author of the commit that last changed it

User · Answer

As far as I know there is no built in svn command to accomplish this   You would need to write a script to run several commands to build all the diffs   A simpler approach would be to use a GUI svn client if that is an option   Many of them such as the subversive plugin for Eclipse will list the history of a file as well as allow you to view the diff of each revision

User · Answer

The oddly named  blame  command does this   If you use Tortoise  it gives you a  from revision  dialog  then a file listing with a line by line indicator of Revision number and author next to it   If you right click on the revision info  you can bring up a  Show log  dialog that gives full checkin information  along with other files that were part of the checkin

User · Answer

Slightly different from what you described  but I think this might be what you actually need   svn blame filename   It will print the file with each line prefixed by the time and author of the commit that last changed it

User · Answer

I ve seen a bunch of partial answers while researching this topic  This is what worked for me and hope it helps others  This command will display output on the command line  showing the revision number  author  revision timestamp and changes made   svn blame -v  lt filename gt    To make your search easier  you can write the output to a file and grep for what you re looking for

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Thanks  Bendin   I like your solution very much   I changed it to work in reverse order  showing most recent changes first    Which is important with long standing code  maintained over several years    I usually pipe it into more   svnhistory elements py  more   I added -r to the sort   I removed spec  handling for  first record    It is it will error out on the last entry  as there is nothing to diff it with     Though I am living with it because I never get down that far      bin bash                                                                        history of file                                                                                                                                                 Bendin on Stack Overflow  http   stackoverflow com questions 282802               Outputs the full history of a given file as a sequence of                       logentry diff pairs   The first revision of the file is emitted as              full text since there s not previous version to compare it to                                                                                                 Dlink                                                                             Made to work in reverse order                                                function history of file         url  1   current url of file                                                    svn log -q  url   grep -E -e   r   digit      -o   cut -c2-   sort -nr             while read r     do             echo             svn log -r r  url HEAD             svn diff -c r  url HEAD             echo     done          history of file  1

User · Answer

Slightly different from what you described  but I think this might be what you actually need   svn blame filename   It will print the file with each line prefixed by the time and author of the commit that last changed it

User · Answer

There s no built-in command for it  so I usually just do something like this      bin bash    history of file     Outputs the full history of a given file as a sequence of   logentry diff pairs   The first revision of the file is emitted as   full text since there s not previous version to compare it to   function history of file         url  1   current url of file     svn log -q  url   grep -E -e   r   digit      -o   cut -c2-   sort -n              first revision as full text         echo         read r         svn log -r r  url HEAD         svn cat -r r  url HEAD         echo          remaining revisions as differences to previous revision         while read r         do             echo             svn log -r r  url HEAD             svn diff -c r  url HEAD             echo         done           Then  you can call it with   history of file  1

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Thanks  Bendin   I like your solution very much   I changed it to work in reverse order  showing most recent changes first    Which is important with long standing code  maintained over several years    I usually pipe it into more   svnhistory elements py  more   I added -r to the sort   I removed spec  handling for  first record    It is it will error out on the last entry  as there is nothing to diff it with     Though I am living with it because I never get down that far      bin bash                                                                        history of file                                                                                                                                                 Bendin on Stack Overflow  http   stackoverflow com questions 282802               Outputs the full history of a given file as a sequence of                       logentry diff pairs   The first revision of the file is emitted as              full text since there s not previous version to compare it to                                                                                                 Dlink                                                                             Made to work in reverse order                                                function history of file         url  1   current url of file                                                    svn log -q  url   grep -E -e   r   digit      -o   cut -c2-   sort -nr             while read r     do             echo             svn log -r r  url HEAD             svn diff -c r  url HEAD             echo     done          history of file  1

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