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Is there a way to find all the changes that affect a specific line of code?

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Daniel Reilly
(143●16●20) Mar 04 '15, 9:13 p.m.
History will find all the changes for a file.  Is there a way to filter that, or execute an extended search, that finds all changes to a specific line within the file?

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Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Mar 05 '15, 12:56 a.m.

Note that the "changes to a specific line" will always be somewhat ambiguous.  All an SCM system knows is a series of file versions that have been checked in.  Whether a given line is considered "the same", "modified", or "deleted" from one version to the next depends upon the specific diff tool you are using.

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Evan Hughes
JAZZ DEVELOPER (2.4k●13●18) Mar 05 '15, 10:54 a.m.
In the Eclipse client, you can select the file in the Package Explorer, open the context menu, and run 'Team - Annotate' on the file. That will show a column on the left side of the editor that you can hover your mouse over to see who edited it last. (If you want to see the previous edit, select the preceding change set in the History view and run Annotate from the context menu)

You can also get blame in the command line by running 'lscm annotate'. 
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Kevin Ramer
Mar 05 '15, 10:59 a.m.

Don't you mean assign blame :-)

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Evan Hughes
JAZZ DEVELOPER Mar 05 '15, 12:34 p.m.

Assign, get, whatever. ;)


(I meant 'blame' in the CVS/SVN sense)

Daniel Reilly
Mar 05 '15, 9:46 p.m.

Thank you.  Annotate was what I was looking for; an aid to track down changes in a module at the line level.

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Geoffrey Clemm
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Mar 07 '15, 5:37 p.m.

Note that "annotate" or "blame" only tells you what was the last change on a given line, not all the changes for a given line.

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Atul Kumar
(187●23●29) Mar 05 '15, 12:49 a.m.
Not very sure, but you can try exploring the history API if it has something useful.

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