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    malharone
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    Is it possible to find out who added a specific line of code in source-code from VSS? Are there programs out there? tools ..? I'm currently going through a large project which has large number of people concurrently inserting/updating codes. While looking for lots "needles" in the haystack, I need to find out the person/user who wrote that line. What i do now, is that I manually perform the diff amongst the various versions until I find that line. It'd make my life lot easier if I can find such tool that'd automate this mundane task! - Malhar

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      Is it possible to find out who added a specific line of code in source-code from VSS? Are there programs out there? tools ..? I'm currently going through a large project which has large number of people concurrently inserting/updating codes. While looking for lots "needles" in the haystack, I need to find out the person/user who wrote that line. What i do now, is that I manually perform the diff amongst the various versions until I find that line. It'd make my life lot easier if I can find such tool that'd automate this mundane task! - Malhar

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      David Stone
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      Sounds like a good project. ;) [Sorry, I can't think of anything that would be helpful here. My brain is fried. Two horrible midterms yesterday and today.]


      Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson

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        Is it possible to find out who added a specific line of code in source-code from VSS? Are there programs out there? tools ..? I'm currently going through a large project which has large number of people concurrently inserting/updating codes. While looking for lots "needles" in the haystack, I need to find out the person/user who wrote that line. What i do now, is that I manually perform the diff amongst the various versions until I find that line. It'd make my life lot easier if I can find such tool that'd automate this mundane task! - Malhar

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        Jeff Martin
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        Subversion[^] has blame :) Jeff Martin My Blog

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          Subversion[^] has blame :) Jeff Martin My Blog

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          Ryan Roberts
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          CVS does too, and that's pretty decrepit. Kind of shows up how god awful source safe is. Ryan

          O fools, awake! The rites you sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old, Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness—and their law is dust. al-Ma'arri (973-1057)

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            Is it possible to find out who added a specific line of code in source-code from VSS? Are there programs out there? tools ..? I'm currently going through a large project which has large number of people concurrently inserting/updating codes. While looking for lots "needles" in the haystack, I need to find out the person/user who wrote that line. What i do now, is that I manually perform the diff amongst the various versions until I find that line. It'd make my life lot easier if I can find such tool that'd automate this mundane task! - Malhar

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            Prakash Nadar
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            nothing better than perforce so far.


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              Is it possible to find out who added a specific line of code in source-code from VSS? Are there programs out there? tools ..? I'm currently going through a large project which has large number of people concurrently inserting/updating codes. While looking for lots "needles" in the haystack, I need to find out the person/user who wrote that line. What i do now, is that I manually perform the diff amongst the various versions until I find that line. It'd make my life lot easier if I can find such tool that'd automate this mundane task! - Malhar

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              Douglas Troy
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              From the History view, select the current "version" of the source and the previous version of the source and do a "Diff" on the code in question. Keep doing this until you find the person that made the change in question ...


              :..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
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                From the History view, select the current "version" of the source and the previous version of the source and do a "Diff" on the code in question. Keep doing this until you find the person that made the change in question ...


                :..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
                Fold with us|Development Blogging|viksoe.dk's site

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                malharone
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                malharone wrote:

                What i do now, is that I manually perform the diff amongst the various versions until I find that line. It'd make my life lot easier if I can find such tool that'd automate this mundane task!

                Usually, by the time I get to analyzing the file for the "violating" change, there are already at least a dozen versions occured on top of it. :((:(

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                  Is it possible to find out who added a specific line of code in source-code from VSS? Are there programs out there? tools ..? I'm currently going through a large project which has large number of people concurrently inserting/updating codes. While looking for lots "needles" in the haystack, I need to find out the person/user who wrote that line. What i do now, is that I manually perform the diff amongst the various versions until I find that line. It'd make my life lot easier if I can find such tool that'd automate this mundane task! - Malhar

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                  Andy Brummer
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                  http://www.codehistorian.com/codehistorian-overview.php[^] This will give you exactly what you are looking for and more.

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                    malharone wrote:

                    What i do now, is that I manually perform the diff amongst the various versions until I find that line. It'd make my life lot easier if I can find such tool that'd automate this mundane task!

                    Usually, by the time I get to analyzing the file for the "violating" change, there are already at least a dozen versions occured on top of it. :((:(

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                    Douglas Troy
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                    Yes, that is kind of the problem ... I am not familiar with another means to accomplish this in VSS.

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                    • A Andy Brummer

                      http://www.codehistorian.com/codehistorian-overview.php[^] This will give you exactly what you are looking for and more.

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                      malharone
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                      Yup .. was just looking at it .. but can't say for sure if the price is justifyable!! :~ . I only need one of the features and could care less of the rest 99 of them. I was hoping there was a freebie out there that does just the diff part. Thanks for the pointer though. - Malhar

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                        Yup .. was just looking at it .. but can't say for sure if the price is justifyable!! :~ . I only need one of the features and could care less of the rest 99 of them. I was hoping there was a freebie out there that does just the diff part. Thanks for the pointer though. - Malhar

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                        Andy Brummer
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                        It's got a 30 day free trial so you can see for yourself.

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