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#!/bin/bash

# usage: ./svngrep http://svn.example.com/trunk/file foobar
# 
# This example will look for the string foobar in all rev of file
#
# @todo better argv handling
# @todo add a --verbose option
# @todo automatic branches and tags detection (?)

SVN_URL=$1
NEEDLE=$2
REV_MIN=`svn log $SVN_URL --xml | grep revision | tail -1 | grep -Eo '[0-9]+'`
REV_MAX=`svn log $SVN_URL --xml | grep revision | head -1 | grep -Eo '[0-9]+'`

echo "checking revisions $REV_MIN to $REV_MAX..."

for REV in `seq $REV_MIN $REV_MAX`; do
  RESULT=`svn cat -r $REV $SVN_URL | grep -n $NEEDLE`
  if [ ! -z "$RESULT" ]; then
    echo "found in rev $REV:"
    echo $RESULT
  fi
done;