History view

 Description

In Subversion, both files and directories are versioned and have a history. If you want to examine the history for a selected resource and find out what happened at a certain revision you can use the History view that can be accessed from any of the three views: Repository view menu, Working copy view menu or Synchronize view menu. From the Repository view you can display the log history regarding any repository resource. From the Working copy view you can display the history of local versioned resources. From the Synchronize view you can show the history of any incoming or outgoing resources.

The view consists of three distinct areas:

  • The revision table showing revision numbers, date/time of revision, the name of the author, as well as the first line of the commit message.
  • The list of resources affected by this revision (modified, added, deleted or changed properties).
  • The commit message for the selected revision.
 

Figure 13.33. History view

History view

The Resource history view does not always show all the changes ever made to a resource because there may be thousands of changes and retrieving the entire list can take a long time. Normally you are interested in the more recent ones and that is why the number of revisions is limited by default from the options to 50. This can be changed by accessing the Preferences->SVN page.

[Note]Note

When using Subversion servers older than version 1.2, a history request may take a very long time because the server will reply with the entire history even if you limited the number of entries to a smaller number.