Mercurial: Search History

The Mercurial History window enables you to search the history of changes of the relevant file(s) on branch and date. It also supports diff to a previous revision, backing out a revision from the repository, and view of a revision.

You can access the Mercurial History window by selecting a versioned file (for example, from the Projects or Files window) and choosing either Team > (Mercurial >) Search History from the main menu or Mercurial > Search History from the right-click menu.

This topic introduces the following Mercurial History window features:

Toolbar
Summary View
Diff View
Search Options

Toolbar

The history toolbar is at the top of the Mercurial History window.

The following table lists components for the commands that are available in the Mercurial History toolbar for the currently displayed project or file.

Go to Previous Difference (previous difference button) Highlights the previous difference found between versions.
Go to Next Difference (next difference button) Highlights the next difference found between versions.
Show All Change Paths (check-box) Displays all files in a changeset.
Filter (drop-down list) contains Displays only those revisions that match the criteria you specified for the selected filter (No Filter, Revision, Message, or User).

Summary View

The Summary view displays a list containing the details of the results matching the specified search criteria. Each row corresponds to a revision obtained from the repository.

Diff View

The Diff Viewer is divided into two panes:

Search Options

You can use the following criteria to search for files or folders:

When you click the Search button, revisions meeting the specified criteria are displayed in Mercurial History window.

You can view search results in the following two views:

See Also
About Mercurial Support
Mercurial Tasks: Quick Reference

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