On February 25, 2011 03:00:58 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). Perhaps you want to create a suggestion?
> 

I believe this would quickly become a way to full-blown /featuritis/.

The interfaces to VCs right now are quite interesting in qt-creator. Perhaps 
just add an appropriate interface for repository init commands of the 
supported VCSs, then, say, some optional mechanism to 
automatically+transparently commit files on save and, with appropriate 
documentation, even the non-technical coders (??) would manage to use this.

What is really missing IMHO is temporary backup of current modified file (a la 
vim and (x)emacs), dropped on save, to provide for the (I know, almost 
inexistent) crashes during a lot of editing. With qt-creator it is easy to 
modify a large number of files in very significant ways (with the multi-file 
search&replace) and if the machine stops or the program crashes before the 
user managed to hit Ctrl+Shift+S, it could easily become frustrating (I know 
what I talk about ...)

Thanks for the attention.

-- 
Cristian Tibirna
KDE developer .. [email protected] .. http://www.kde.org

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