History view
This view shows the list of revisions of a file, with the date and time when the revision has been stored. Some of the revisions are supplied with tags and labels.
Revisions are tagged automatically, for example, on opening a project, committing changes, or performing test. You can also set your own labels.
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Click this button to revert the selected action. |
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Click this button to create a patch based on the selected local version. |
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Click this button to have the corresponding reference topic shown. |
Tip
The same actions are available on the context menu of each revision.
Differences view
The Differences view is a powerful editor that supports basic search and replace, undo/redo actions, and code completion.
If a revision is selected in the History view, the left pane of the Differences view shows this read-only revision, with the differences against the current revision, which is displayed in the right pane. The current revision is editable.
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Ctrl+C Command C or Ctrl+Insert Command Insert | Click this button to copy the line at the caret or the selected fragment of text to the Clipboard. |
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Ctrl+F Command F or Alt+F3 Alt F3
Ctrl+RCommand R |
Click this button to initiate the finding and replacing text procedure in the pane where the caret currently resides.
Refer to the search options description for details. |
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F7F7 / Shift+F7Shift F7 | Use these buttons to move to the next / previous difference. |
| Ignore whitespace | Use this drop-down list to define how the differences viewer should treat white spaces in the text.
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Use these buttons to apply differences. | |
| Legend | This area shows summary information about the encountered differences: the number of differences found and the color map.
The color map for the Differences viewer is configured in the Colors and Fonts page. |

