How do I search all revisions of a file in a SubVersion repository?

Question

I\'d like to grep all revisions of a file for a string. e.g. to find when a function was added or removed.

Is there a \"simple\" way to do this? (i.e.

Answer 1

This is a command to search for revisions of a file containing a string:

svn log -l 30 -q FILENAME | grep ^r | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | while read rev; do
    svn cat -$rev FILENAME | grep -c PATTERN && svn info FILENAME@$rev
done