History of changes to a particular line of code in Subversion

Question

Is it possible to see the history of changes to a particular line of code in a Subversion repository?

I\'d like, for instance, to be able to see when a particular st

Answer 1

In the TortoiseSVN client there is a very nice feature that lets you:

• blame a file, displaying the last change for each line (this is standard)
• "blame previous revision", after clicking on a particular line in the above view (this is the good one)

The second feature does what it says - it shows the annotated revision preceding the last modification to the line. By using this feature iteratively, you can trace back through the history of a particular line.