It's called local versioning. Basically, whenever you save a file, it's recorded. You can revert to any previous version up to a given limit.
JBuilder has this functionality and I used it sometimes years ago. I remember I see this in eclipse 3.1 too while fiddling around with its configuration settings, but I never used it. Cheers, Cedric ----- Original Message ----- From: austen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:02 pm Subject: [HACKYSTAT-DEV-L] Source code collection > So I was thinking about Hackystat again (It just sucks you in!) and > was wondering if Hackystat functionality could be extended to collect > source code snippets that a developer is hacking on. The reason > why I > started thinking about source code collection was the way I created > the usermaps GUI. I was having problems getting it to display > properly and basically ended up following this process: > > 1. Write some code, build it, view it. > 2. Re-write the code, build it and view it again. > 3. Rinse and repeat. > > After long periods of time trying to get the GUI to look how I wanted, > I ended up re-writing the same code. For example I would move buttons > back to locations that they have already been or resized components > back to a previously used dimension. Because of the mass amounts of > code re-writing, I would waste time waiting for the build process to > finish only to see that the result is again a view that I do not wish > to see. > > I was thinking that if a sensor could collect code snippets you were > working on, the developer would be able view them later and minimize > the re-writing of the same code. After talking in the lab today with > Hongbing, Julie, and James, the approach turned into a comparison of > code snippets to the actual snapshot of the GUI. > > This would be helpful since the majority of my work on HackyInstaller > deals with getting the GUI to look just right. I don't know if > Hackystat would be able to collect snippets of code because code > changes so much during the hacking session. And maybe the GUI > creation process won't be as painful when the new build system is in. > > Anyways, just a thought. > > Cheers, > austen >
