The Contextual Menu of the History View

When a single resource is selected in the History view, the contextual menu contains the following actions:

• Compare - Compares the selected revision with your working copy file. It is enabled only when you select a file.
• Open - Opens the selected revision of the file into the Editor. This action is enabled only if the resource is a file.
• Open With... - Displays the Open with... dialog for specifying the editor in which the selected file revision is opened. This action is enabled only if the resource is a file.
• Get Contents - Replaces the current content of the local version of the selected file with the content of the selected revision.
• Save revision to... - Saves the selected revision to a file so you have an older version of that file. This option is available only when you access the history of a file, and it saves a version of that one file only.
• Revert changes from this revision - Reverts changes which were made in the selected revision. The changes are reverted in your working copy so this operation does not affect the repository file. The action undoes the changes made only in selected revision. It does not replace your working copy file with the entire file at the earlier revision. This action is useful for undoing an earlier change when other unrelated changes have been made since the date of the revision. This action is enabled when the resource history was launched for a local working copy resource.
• Update to revision - Updates your working copy resource to the selected revision. Useful if you want to have your working copy reflect a time in the past. It is best to update a whole directory in your working copy, not just one file, otherwise your working copy is inconsistent and you are unable to commit your changes.
• Check out from revision... - Gets the content of the selected revision into local file system.
• Show Annotation... - Brings up a dialog for selecting the start revision and the end revision of the interval of revisions for which the SVN annotations is computed and marked in the selected resource in the editor panel. This action is available only when you access the history of a file.
• Change - Allows you to change commit data for a file:
  • Author - Allows you to change the user name that committed the selected file revision.
  • Message - Allows you to change the commit message of the selected file revision.

When two resources are selected in the History view, the contextual menu contains the following actions:

• Compare revisions - When the resource is a file the action compares the two selected revisions using the Compare view. When the resource is a folder, the action displays the set of all resources from that folder that were changed between the two revision numbers.
• Revert changes from these revisions - Similar to the svn-merge command, it merges two selected revisions into the working copy resource. This action is only enabled when the resource history was requested for a working copy item.