Re: line number to revision

[Robin Rosenberg]

WannaLeanOO wrote:

> 
>> Is there a command line tool or command that would quickly translate
>> filename + line number to revision number.
> 
> Is it possible at all, to do revers lookup from filename + line number
> to revision (or version) number, rather than iterating through each
> version?

Look at annotate, i.e. 

cvs annotate filename

You can filter the output:

cvs annotate filename |grep -n .|grep ^linenumber:|cut -d: -f 2

-- robin