Time-lapse View

Time-lapse View provides an interactive graphical representation of a file's history, showing when lines were added, changed, and deleted, who made the changes, and when the changes were made. Time-lapse View enables you to browse forward and back through changes dynamically, enabling you to locate changes of interest. Detail panes at the bottom of the window provide more information about selected chunks.

To control the display, use the following settings and features.

The Toolbar

Mode

Determines how many revisions are displayed. Options are:

  • Single revision: one revision at a time is displayed
  • Incremental diffs: two adjacent revisions are displayed, with changes highlighted
  • Multiple revisions: a range of revisions is displayed, with changes highlighted
Content range Specifies the starting and ending revision displayed.
Scale Specifies the unit used: changelist number, date, or revision number.
User
Toggles display of the user that made the change.
Aging
Displays color coding to indicate how recently a change was entered. The darker the shading, the more recent the change.
Line numbers
Toggles display of line numbers.
Lifetimes
Toggles display of lifetimes, which are graphics that indicate by their width how long the adjacent chunk of text has been in the file.
Branch history

Toggles inclusion of branching (integration) history.
Find
Search text

Go to

In single revision mode, go to specified line number.
Next/previous diff
Go to next or previous change
Line ending
Specifies how line endings and whitespace are treated to determine differences

Using the Slider

The slider enables you to browse rapidly through file revisions. The appearance of the slider corresponds to the mode you select. The unit by which the slider advances is specified by the mode you select (date, changelist, or revision). The revison, date, or changelist number is displayed under the slider.

Mode Slider Appearance Description
single revision Move it to the right to display the next file revision or left to display the previous revision.
incremental diffs Move it to the right to display the next pair of file revisions, or left to display the previous pair of file revisions.
multiple revisions Move the right and left halves separately, to control how many revisions are displayed.