CVS: History Viewer
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The IDE's Search
History window enables you to view a summary of a file's evolution
over time by revision number. You can open the Search History window by
choosing CVS > Search History.
This window enables you to see the history of committed changes for the selected file or folder.
You can use the following criteria to search for files or folders:
- Message. Enter the name of a message to search for the revisions of files or folders committed with that message.
- Username. Enter a username to search for the revisions of files or folders committed by that user.
- From. Enter a tag, branch, revision or date of a message to search for the revisions of files or folders committed after that tag, branch, revision or date.
Click the Browse button to search for a branch or tag.
- To. Enter a tag, branch, revision or date of a message to search for the revisions of files or folders committed before that tag, branch, revision or date.
Click the Browse button to search for a branch or tag.
When you click the Search button, files and folders meeting the specified criteria are displayed in the lower pane of the the Search History window.
Click the Summary or Diff buttons to do the following with the search results:
- Summary. Click this button to see a single list of the details of the commit results matching the specified search criteria.
- Diff. Click this button to see a tree view of the commit results matching the specified search criteria.
Expand the tree and click on a revision to compare the changes between selected revision and the previous revision.
Ctrl-click two revisions to compare the two revisions.
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See Also
- Working with Version Histories
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