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for the specified files or URLs.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414784"></a><h2>Synopsis</h2><pre class="programlisting">svn blame TARGET[@REV]...</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414797"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>Show author and revision information in-line for the
specified files or URLs. Each line of text is annotated
at the beginning with the author (username) and the
revision number for the last change to that line.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414809"></a><h2>Alternate Names</h2><p>praise, annotate, ann</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414819"></a><h2>Changes</h2><p>Nothing</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414829"></a><h2>Accesses Repository</h2><p>Yes</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414839"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen">
--revision (-r) ARG
--verbose (-v)
--incremental
--xml
--extensions (-x) ARG
--force
--use-merge-history(-g)
--username ARG
--password ARG
--no-auth-cache
--non-interactive
--config-dir ARG
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id414854"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>If you want to see blame annotated source for
<code class="filename">readme.txt</code> in your test
repository:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svn blame http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt
3 sally This is a README file.
5 harry You should read this.
</pre><p>Even if <span class="command"><strong>svn blame</strong></span> says that Harry
last modified readme.txt in revision 5, you'll have to
examine exactly what the revision changed to be sure that
Harry changed the <span class="emphasis"><em>context</em></span> of the
line—he may have just adjusted the whitespace.
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