Working With CVS History

Projects that are managed by CVS now have local history and remote history managed from the same location. You can open, compare, and replace file remote and local revisions from the History View.

  1. In one of the navigation views select the any file that is part of a CVS managed project.

  2. From the file's context menu, select one of the following options:

    Team>Show History....
    Compare With>History....
    Replace With>History....

    Note that all of these actions basically have the same end result: the opening of the History View with the revisions of the seleted file displayed in the table. The only difference between the three actions is that some actions open the History View in a different modes. For more info see CVS History View.

  3. The history view will open and display the revisions available for the selected file. You can control what type of revisions are shown in the table by selecting the appropriate toggle button in the History View tooblar. The options are: Local and Remote Revisions, Local Revisions, Remote Revisions.

    History View

  4. You can click on any revision in the History View and:
    Open: opens the selected revision
    Compare Current with Revision: to compare the selected file with the current revision of the file that resides in the workspace
    Compare with Each Other: to compare two selected revisions
    Get Contents: replaces the current workspace file with the contents of the selected revision.