The Revision Explorer is a visual tool that enables you to evaluate the evolution of changes in an individual file. It also simplifies operations such as updating the working directory with previous revisions and merging changes across different branches.
To open the Revision Explorer:
The Revision Explorer displays the versions and branches of a file as a tree. If you expand the file's node, subnodes representing each version of the file are displayed. You can review versions that appear on different branches by expanding the version node corresponding to where the branch was made. In the property sheet in the right side of the window, status and log information is given for the selected version.
You can view a version of the file by right-clicking the version's node and choosing Open from the contextual menu. You can copy text from the opened version to the clipboard by using the Ctrl-C keyboard shortcut.
You can view the differences between your working version of the file and a previous version by selecting the node for the previous version and choosing Diff Graphical (or, for CVS Built-in Client filesystems, Diff) from the contextual menu. You can view a graphical comparison of two revisions by the selecting the nodes for each revision (while holding the Ctrl key), right-clicking, and choosing Diff Graphical (or Diff) from the contextual menu.
You can access other version control commands (depending on the type of VCS) on the file by right-clicking the file's node and choosing from the submenu for the version control system.
Each revision and branch node has a special contextual menu that allows you to perform updates and merges to the working copy of your file based on the selected revision.
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Working With CVS Integrating a Version Control System |