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| <h1 class="Head">Local history</h1> |
| <p>Local history of a file is maintained when you create or modify a file. Each time you edit and save a file, a copy |
| of it is saved. This allows you to compare your current file state to a previous state, or replace the file with a |
| previous state. Each state in the local history is identified by the date and time the file was saved.</p> |
| <p>Neither projects nor folders have local history.</p> |
| <p>Local History is displayed in the History View. Here is a look at what the local history of a Workbench file might |
| look like:</p> |
| <p><img src="../images/Image273_local_hist.png" alt="Local history dialog" border="0"></p> |
| <p>To view the local history of a file, choose <b>Team > Show Local History</b> from the pop-up menu. This will |
| bring up the History view and populate it with the revisions of the selected file. You can open different revisions |
| from the table (by using <b>Open</b> from the context menu or by double clicking on a revision), compare them against |
| the latest revision or against a previous revisions (by using <b>Compare With Revision</b> from the context menu), |
| and replace the current revision with the contents of a previous revisions (by using <b>Get Contents</b> from the |
| context menu).</p> |
| <h2>Toolbar</h2> |
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| <h3>Refresh</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command refreshes the contents of the view, fetching the latest history information for the |
| resource from the server.</p> |
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| <h3>Link with Editor and Selection</h3> |
| <p class="Para">When enabled, the view will display the history for the resource of the active editor or of the |
| active selection.</p> |
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| <h3>Pin</h3> |
| <p class="Para">When enabled will pin the view and its contents. Any new requests for history will open a new |
| instance of the History View.</p> |
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| <h3>Group Revisions by Date</h3> |
| <p class="Para">When enabled, all history items will be sorted into one of the following date categories:</p> |
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| <li>Today</li> |
| <li>Yesterday</li> |
| <li>This Month</li> |
| <li>Previous</li> |
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| <h3>Collapse All</h3> |
| <p class="Para">Will the view is in the Group by Date mode, Collapse All will collapse all of the date |
| categories.</p> |
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| <h3>Compare Mode</h3> |
| <p class="Para">When enabled, a double click (or a single click depending on your Open Mode strategy set in |
| <b>Preferences>General</b>) will open a compare editor. When it is disabled, clicking on a revision will open |
| that revision.</p> |
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| <h2 class="Para">Context menu</h2> |
| <p class="Para">From the context menu of the Local History view you can perform the following operations:</p> |
| <h3>Open</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command will open the contents of the selected revision in a read only editor. (The editor used |
| is the one that is registered as the default editor for the file type). <i>Note</i>: If the revision being opened is |
| the current version of the file, then it will be opened in a regular editor.</p> |
| <h3>Compare Current With Revision/Compare With Each Other</h3> |
| <p class="Para">The compare command differs based on the number of revisions selected in the history view. For a |
| single selection, <b>Compare Current With Revision</b> will the compare the current version of the resource with the |
| selected revision. For two selections, <b>Compare with Each Other</b> will compare the selected revisions.</p> |
| <h3>Get Contents</h3> |
| <p class="Para">This command will load the contents of the selected revision into the local copy of the file whose |
| history is displayed in the view.</p> |
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