Vid.php

<?php

/**
 * @file
 * Definition of Drupal\node\Plugin\views\argument\Vid.
 */
namespace Drupal\node\Plugin\views\argument;

use Drupal\views\Plugin\views\argument\Numeric;
use Drupal\Core\Annotation\Plugin;

/**
 * Argument handler to accept a node revision id.
 *
 * @Plugin(
 *   id = "node_vid",
 *   module = "node"
 * )
 */
class Vid extends Numeric {

  // No constructor is necessary.

  /**
   * Override the behavior of title(). Get the title of the revision.
   */
  function title_query() {
    $titles = array();
    $results = db_select('node_revision', 'nr')
      ->fields('nr', array(
      'vid',
      'nid',
      'title',
    ))
      ->condition('nr.vid', $this->value)
      ->execute()
      ->fetchAllAssoc('vid', PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
    $nids = array();
    foreach ($results as $result) {
      $nids[] = $result['nid'];
    }
    $nodes = node_load_multiple(array_unique($nids));
    foreach ($results as $result) {
      $nodes[$result['nid']]
        ->set('title', $result['title']);
      $titles[] = check_plain($nodes[$result['nid']]
        ->label());
    }
    return $titles;
  }

}