How do you get the history of a file/folder property in SVN?

Question

What\'s the easiest way to determine when a property was set on a file or folder? Basically, I\'m looking for an equivalent of \"svn blame\" that works on properties.

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Answer 1

Using the propget or proplist commands seem to be really, really slow.

For my purposes it was easy enough to do svn diff --properties-only on every revision and store it off. It stores enough information so that you can write some other scripts to do whatever comparing/blaming that is necessary without getting into the network shenanigans or whatever made propget/proplist so slow.

#!/bin/bash

# 7273 being the highest revision in my repository
for j in {1..7273}; do
    i=$((j-1))
    echo "$i:$j"
    svn diff --properties-only -r $i:$j https://... > propdiff.$j.txt
done