Which Subversion web interfaces have a blame feature?

Question

I'm looking for a subversion web client ala SVN::Web but with a very specific feature I've always thought would be quite useful.

What I want is the ability to find which revision was responsible for a certain line (or lines) in a text file. A way to do this via the web would be fantastic.

Anybody know of such a tool?

Boatright

SVN::Web has blame/annotate view. – Sinter

Try the blame view in VisualSVN Server's web ui: https://mcmap.net/q/1941381/-which-subversion-web-interfaces-have-a-blame-feature and demo-server.visualsvn.com/!/#asf/blame/head/subversion/trunk/… – Photoreceptor

Answer 1

We use Warehouse, and are quite happy with it. It's written in Ruby on Rails, so if you're well versed in that, you're far ahead of the game. They also just went open source.

Squall

That is a beautiful application. – Boatright

Sure is! It has some bugs, but now that it's open source, those should quickly disappear :) – Squall

Doesn't seem to have the annotate feature though :-? – Jestinejesting

Actually, it does have Blame support. See activereload.net/2008/1/8/… for a screenshot. – Alb

Is this software available nowadays? The first link leads to nowhere, github link gives 404 not found error. – Photoreceptor

Answer 2

I use WebSVN, you can use svn blame from there, and you see who and when added or modified each line of code in a file...

Edit: Here are a pair of screenshots, so you can get an idea:

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Hubbs

Answer 3

Trac can do this for you. When you view a file, you have an annotate option at the top of the page, which will use ajax to load a bar down the left of the file source, giving the revision numbers for each line (or block, if a block was edited in one commit)

It'd be nice to see something that had a revision history for each line though.

Armament

Answer 4

The SVN::Web interface gives you access to the svn blame annotation(s) on files.

When you're viewing a specific file, you should see "Blame/Annotate" as one of the links in the upper left. When you click on it, you have a much more-marked-up rendition of the file, with blocks in alternating colors. These delinate where contiguous blocks belonging to a given rev start and end. To the left are the user-names of the users whose commits were responsible for a given block, and to the left of that a linked number indicating the revision that the particular block stems from. Clicking on the link will take you to the revision-view page, that lists all the files changed in that revision, along with color-coded diffs of the files/changes themselves.

Fertile

Answer 5

Tortoise SVN also supports the 'blame' feature.

Standardize

The question was specifically about a Web interface. – Alb

Answer 6

VisualSVN Server's web UI has a blame view. Check the demo at https://demo-server.visualsvn.com/!/#asf/blame/r1873567/subversion/trunk/subversion/tests/README?line=34

In the blame view, each line in the file includes the author's name, date, log message, and revision number. The view also has the Blame previous revision command that helps navigate to earlier revisions and examine the details of changes. See screenshots below.

Blame view overview

Log message

Blame previous revision

Photoreceptor

Answer 7

I thought that SVN had the 'blame' function that could do something similar to that. I am taking a stab in the dark though. Hold on while I take a quick look through the interwebs.

You bet. Check this out. (I use subclipse btw)

This implies that most web SVN interfaces will have this feature because it is not anything really special.

Kandacekandahar

doesnt answer the question. They want a web client that can use svn blame, not the technicalities of it. – Armament