The Versioning Explorer

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The Versioning Explorer is a visual tool that enables you to evaluate the evolution of changes in version-controlled files. It also simplifies operations such as updating the working directory with previous revisions and merging changes across different branches.

To open the Versioning Explorer, right-click any VCS filesystem and choose Versioning Explorer.

Like the Explorer, the Versioning Explorer displays a tree view of all mounted VCS filesystems and their contents. Unlike the Explorer, the Versioning Explorer does not group files into single metadata nodes or distinguish between different object types.

Each file in the filesystem is represented by its own node. The top-level node represents the current working copy as it exists in your working directory. When you expand a file's node, you see subnodes representing each revision of the file.

Each revision node is annotated with a revision number and log message. You can review versions that appear on different branches by expanding the revision node corresponding to where the branch was made. You can access other version control commands by right-clicking a file's working copy node and choosing from the VCS commands submenu.

You can also access additional commands by right-clicking any revision node in the Versioning Explorer. Revision nodes for all VCS filesystems support the following commands:

Note For a VCS filesystem node, the Properties window allows you to set the length of revision log messages and to show or hide dead files and messages for revisions. To display VCS filesystem properties, right-click the VCS filesystem node in the Versioning Explorer and choose Properties.

In addition, revision nodes for CVS filesystems support the following commands:

See Also
CVS Support
Generic VCS Support
Using VCS Groups

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