History View

The History view displays historical information about the selected item. This view plays an important role in version control. After you select the appropriate file or item, the History view automatically displays a list of all the past revisions of that file or item. The revisions are listed from the tip revision to the initial revision. Double-clicking a revision displays its properties. Right-clicking displays a context menu that enables you to review the properties for the revision, to compare revisions, and to change the comment associated with that revision. For files, you can also view the file in the default editor or open in an appropriate application.

You can open the History view by taking one of the following actions:
  • Select Window > Show View > History
  • Select Window > Show View > Other, and choose History from the Server Explorer tree node.
Default columns provided in the History view include the following columns:
  • View – View to which the file belongs.
  • Revision – Number StarTeam assigned to the revision when it was checked in.
  • Author – Person who checked in the revision.
  • Time – Date and time of the revision.
  • Comment – Reason for creating the revision.
  • Branch Revision – Indicates the branch number for the item.

History View Context Menu Actions

The History view context menu enables you to complete the following tasks:
  • View content of revision in a default editor (files only)
  • Display the properties of a revision
  • Compare revisions
  • Compare properties of revisions
  • Change comments associated with revisions
  • Create URLs and HTML representations and copy them to the Windows Clipboard and paste them into email applications, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and so on to quickly open the item in StarTeam
  • Create desktop shortcuts (.stx) to quickly launch the Cross-Platform Client
  • Open the local folder containing the selected file
Parent topic: Views