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NPS
NPS

Reputation: 6355

How to keep VS change history after saving?

When one makes a few changes to the code in Visual Studio, then undoes some of them (Ctrl+Z) and then saves the code (Ctrl+S) the whole change history from that point onward (all undone changes) are lost - one can't redo these changes (Ctrl+Y). The history from that point backward is kept by VS but the forward part of it is for an unknown reason dropped.

Any way to keep the whole history?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4002

Answers (3)

Nathvi
Nathvi

Reputation: 196

Maybe this extension will help. http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/226c2108-9da9-407d-b90d-9783040d27b8

Upvotes: 0

Srinivas
Srinivas

Reputation: 1063

You cannot do anything to make the editor(which maintains the history) save every step you did when you undo some changes and save it. So the answer is NO. I don't know about visual studio 2012 editor though because I haven't used it.

Upvotes: 1

Maslow
Maslow

Reputation: 18746

Use Source control (or local source control on your desktop if that's not feasible), and you can roll backwards or forwards tons of changes, check in more often.

With Git for example I can check in every few minutes and be able to roll back or forward individual lines or commits.

They are using VSS here, so I'm using git for local undo/redo extensions. Source control is the best way to handle more lengthy change histories like you are referring to.

Upvotes: 0

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