On 25/02/11 09:19, Leandro T. C. Melo wrote:
> On 2/25/2011 9:50 AM, ext Christian Kandeler wrote:
>> On 02/25/2011 09:00 AM, ext Leandro T. C. Melo wrote:
>>> On 2/24/2011 5:34 PM, ext [email protected] wrote:
>>>>> Is there any way to know the historic of a file? and the differences with 
>>>>> the actual file?
>>>> If you are using version control: Yes. If not: No.
>>>>
>>>> So please use a version control system like subversion, cvs, perforce, 
>>>> mercurial or git
>>>> (all of them are supported in Qt Creator for a while now:-)
>>> As Tobias pointed we currently provide this only through SCM tool
>>> integration. But it's still worth to think on feature like Eclipse's
>>> local history, which keeps track of recent saved versions of the files
>>> (even across multiple sessions).
>> The target group being developers who want a bit of version control, but
>> don't know how to use an actual VCS? I'm not sure that would be an
>> effort well spent.
> 
> Well, they don't play the exact same purpose. Think of the local history 
> as intermediate versions of the files which live inside a VCS session. 
> It's like an improved undo/redo which persists across runs of the IDE in 
> a structured way.

There could be an abstracted interface for trivial VC operations, like
diff and revert, which interfaces with 2-3 most popular VCSs. But there
is a risk of effort duplication as quite a lot of them are easy to use
when combined with existing programs (say HG + Meld).

Fox
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