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That sounds like all sorts of "fun".
For values of "fun" equal to "root canal without anesthetic"
Hopefully the code was heavily, heavily documented with notes about "this change is due to change request XYZ"!
Not quite at the line by line level, but every file had a header that logged every change back to the change request. There'd apparently been one fairly disastrous review before I came aboard, and I was put in place to ensure everything was recorded and properly documented in both the change management system and the files. Which meant change requests regularly ran 1-200 pages by the time you'd recorded all the files changed from start to finish, and then you needed to verify each of those files said the same thing. I managed to automate some of it, but there's a limit to how much you can automate when people are recording stuff in free text.