On 12/03/08 01:52:05, steviekm3 wrote: > I would like to take a string of text that exists in a file, that is > under cvs source control, and find out what file version did this > string of text first appear in the file. A command or script to do > this is what I'm looking for. > > For example below is a file called foo.cc, as an example I would like > to find out how to go about creating a script that would tell me what > version of foo.cc the string "foobar" first appeared.
Although not exactly what you're looking for, perhaps you can use this perl script that I posted a while back which binary searches for the first date that particular string appeared: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-cvs/2008-02/msg00039.html
