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svn blame (praise, annotate, ann) — Show author and revision information inline for the specified files or URLs.
Show author and revision information inline for the specified files or URLs. Each line of text is annotated at the beginning with the author (username) and the revision number for the last change to that line.
--extensions (-x) ARG --force --incremental --revision (-r) REV --use-merge-history (-g) --verbose (-v) --xml
If you want to see blame-annotated source for
readme.txt in your test
repository:
$ svn blame http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt
3 sally This is a README file.
5 harry You should read this.
Even if svn blame says that Harry
last modified readme.txt in revision
5, you'll have to examine exactly what the revision
changed to be sure that Harry changed
the context of the line—he may
have adjusted just the whitespace.
If you use the --xml option, you can
get XML output describing the blame annotations, but not
the contents of the lines themselves:
$ svn blame --xml http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt <?xml version="1.0"?> <blame> <target path="readme.txt"> <entry line-number="1"> <commit revision="3"> <author>sally</author> <date>2008-05-25T19:12:31.428953Z</date> </commit> </entry> <entry line-number="2"> <commit revision="5"> <author>harry</author> <date>2008-05-29T03:26:12.293121Z</date> </commit> </entry> </target> </blame>