find file revision in CVS where particular change was made

m4rtin · 10-23-2012, 04:44 AM

Is there an easy way to find a file revision in CVS where particular change was made? For example I have a file with latest revision 1.351. I can use "cvs annotate <filename>", but this displays only the last change for each line in revision 1.351. I could do a for loop which diffs all the revisions starting from 1.1 to 1.351 with each other and then allows me to grep the output, but is there a more convenient method for this?

tronayne · 10-23-2012, 06:44 AM

You can get into ${CVSROOT}/project and look a the repository file (filename,v) with an editor, grep, etc. The changes, with version numbers, are in each file. I don't know a a good way to look other than that.

Now, 351 changes? Well, good luck with that, eh?

Hope this helps some.