RE: Any ideas on how to create this CVS tool ?

[Arthur Barrett]

> steviekm3 writes:
> > 
> > I would like to take a string of text that exists in a file, that is
> > under cvs source control, and find out what file version did this
> > string of text first appear in the file.
> 
> Larry Jones writes:
> cvs annotate

No that will show you the file version that the *line* where that string
appears was most recently changed.

In particular if the string does not exist in the latest version then
the string will not appear at all.

I think that MXR and Glimpse do something like what is being asked for:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/search

Regards,


Arthur