[darcs-users] finding the patch where a line was removed

[Daniel Burrows]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:39:41AM -0500, Nathan Gray <kolibrie at graystudios.org> was heard to say:
> In order to find the patch where a line is added, one can easily
> 
>   darcs annotate FILENAME
> 
> and find the name of the patch tied to the line in question.
> 
> To find the patch where a line is removed, 'darcs annotate' is not
> quite as helpful, because the line is no longer printed out.

  [snip]

> Anyone know of an easier way?
> 
> How should this functionality best be implemented?

  So, I've never done this, but I think you can get darcs to do
something like it with:

darcs trackdown "grep 'regexp' path/to/file"

  According to the manual, that should tell you the most recent
repository version in which the grep succeeds.

  Daniel