If you wanna see the whole history differences of some file in svn repository, you could use this:
$ svndiffhist file
Retrieving releases...
OK (found 17 steps)
## 908:895
diffs...
## 895:890
diffs...
## 890:880
... etc
Where svndiffhist is the following script:
function svndiffhist { FILE=$1 echo -n "Retrieving releases..." >&2 releases=$( svn log $FILE | grep '^r[^a-z]' | cut -d " " -f1 | cut -dr -f2- ) num_steps=$( echo $releases | wc -w ) echo -e "tOK (found "$num_steps" steps)" >&2 # Sort them in ascrending order #releases=$( echo $releases | tr " " "n" | sort -n ) # Group them as A:B B:C C:D releases=$( echo $releases | sed 's/ ([0-9]+)/:1 1/g' ) for EACH_STEP in $releases; do #svn diff -r $EACH_STEP $FILE | gvim - echo "## $EACH_STEP" >&2 svn diff -r $EACH_STEP $FILE done }