How to use the IntelliJ IDEA local history capability.
Basic procedures to view the history of a file or folder and recent changes. Learn how to label the local versions.
This section describes how to use Local History, which is your personal real-time version control system. Local History is independent of external version control systems and works with the directories of your project even when they are not under any VCS control.
Local history is cleared when you install a new version of IntelliJ IDEA or when you invalidate caches . Therefore, check in the changes to your version control system before performing these operations.
This section describes how to: