History View

Available for most perspectives, the History View displays a log of resource changes. It also offers the ability to open an editor for a specified revision, load a revision, and revert the Workspace to a particular revision. Depending on the active view, take these steps to view the history:

IF in this view... THEN take these steps...
Project Explorer Right-click a resource to produce a pop-up menu, and select Compare With | Latest from Repository.
SVN Repositories Highlight a resource and right-click to produce a pop-up menu, and select Show History.
Team Synchronize Highlight a resource and right-click to produce a pop-up menu, and select Show History.

This view has these areas:

  • Top: Presents information about the resource; it has columns containing the revision number, the date of the commit, the number of changes, the author of the changes, and the author's commit comment.
  • Middle: Shows comments for the selected revision.
  • Bottom:Contains information about which resources were affected by the changes.

View Bar

The view bar offers these tools: Refresh, Link with Editor and Selection, Pin this History View, Show Previous Histories,Minimize, and Maximize.