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File timeline

Git · 1 min read

Every past version of the file you are looking at, newest first, in a list you can open.

When you would want it

It answers 'when did this break' and 'what did this look like last week' without leaving the editor.

Where to find it

  • All Features → File timeline
  • Show the timeline
  • Turn on or off
  • Settings

What you get out of it

  • 'When did this break' becomes a scroll, not a detective story.
  • The answer is scoped to the file in front of you, not the whole repo history.

How to use it, step by step

  1. Open a file and run Git - File Timeline, or look under Timeline in the Source Control panel.
  2. Every commit that touched this file is listed, newest first; it says so when none has yet.
  3. Click any entry to see the file as it was - and what that commit changed.

Why this beats the usual way

Repo-wide history forces you to filter noise yourself. File-level timeline is the shape of the question 'what happened to this', which is the question you actually had.

Find it in Universal Search

File timeline · Git · file history · past versions · when did this change