There's potentially a large number of transactions to display in the Summary pane -- for example, when displaying the history of an entire depot. Retrieving all the transactions at once from the depot's database can be time-consuming. The History Browser handles this situation by initially retrieving a small number of transactions, then letting you control the retrieval of additional transactions with the toolbar located just above this table.Controls at the top of the Summary pane determine which transactions are displayed. You can invoke commands on one or more transactions that you select. See Working with Tables on page 9.The controls pictured below determine how many transactions (and which ones) are retrieved from the depot's database and loaded into the summary pane. Click on a control in the image below for more information about it:Once a certain set of transactions has been loaded into the summary pane, you can browse through those transactions. Click any transaction to select it; the Comment and Versions panes are updated with the transaction's details. You can use the usual navigation keys to change the selected transaction: up-arrow and down-arrow, PgUp and PgDn, Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn.You can select one or more transactions in the Summary pane, and invoke commands on them. Use the selection's context menu or the toolbar buttons above the Summary pane.(from dynamic stream history only) For the selected Promote transaction, performs the equivalent of an "undo" in a particular child workspace of the dynamic stream. AccuRev prompts you to specify which workspace. Older versions of the transaction's elements will be activated in that workspace. For details, see the revert reference page in the AccuRev CLI User's Guide.(from text-file element history only) Compare the version in the selected transaction with the version in another transaction. AccuRev prompts you to select another transaction from the summary pane.(from text-file element history only, when in the context of a particular workspace) Compare the version in the selected transaction with the file in the workspace from which the History Browser was invoked. This workspace is listed at the bottom on the AccuRev GUI window. This enables you to invoke a comparison with a file that you have changed in your workspace, but have not yet preserved in the repository with a Keep command.(dynamic stream only) Load the selected versions into the Change Palette, so that they can be merged and promoted to other streams.(dynamic stream only) Load the selected versions into the Change Palette, so that they can be patched to other streams.Activate each of the transaction's versions in a particular workspace. AccuRev prompts you to specify one of your workspaces.You can perform several operations on a selected version in the Versions pane, using its context menu or the versions pane toolbar.Windows: Run the appropriate command on the file, according to its file type. (The Windows file-typing system — "file associations" — does not provide for assigning a file type if the filename has no suffix.)UNIX: Open a text editor on the file.Note: A version is "in" a change package if it -- or any of its descendants -- is the head version of an entry in that change package.For a version that belongs to a single change package, an edit form opens on that one issue record. For a version that belongs to multiple change packages, an Issues tab opens, listing all the issue records.(only when displaying the history of an individual file) Merge the selected version into the version in the workspace from which the History Browser was invoked.(only when displaying the history of an individual file) Patch the selected version into the version in the workspace from which the History Browser was invoked.Compare the selected version with the version that was in its workspace or stream just before the version was created.(only available in the Active Transactions tab, not in other History Browser contexts)(dynamic stream only): Load the selected versions into the Change Palette, so that they can be promoted to other streams.(only when displaying the history of an individual file) Activate the selected element in the workspace from which the History Browser was invoked.Create a new entry (or modify an existing entry) in the change package section (Changes tab) of one or more issue records. The version you specify becomes the head version of the change package entry; AccuRev determines the corresponding basis version automatically.The default query is executed, and the results are displayed in a dialog (see The Send to Issue Command on page 121). You are prompted to choose one or more of the issue records selected by the query. You can also create a new issue record, whose number will be entered in the dialog.
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