{"id":3707,"date":"2013-02-24T02:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T21:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aasims.wordpress.com\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:17:20","slug":"local-historyrevision-in-xcode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/local-historyrevision-in-xcode\/","title":{"rendered":"Local history\/revision of files in Xcode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello friends ..\"extra-xcode\"<\/a><\/p>\n

hope things are going good on your desk ..<\/p>\n

Last night I was going through my tweets<\/a>, and there I found something really interesting; I crawled\u00a0it for few minutes and after reading some blog posts I came to know about a very useful but hidden feature that I always miss in Xcode<\/a> .i.e. local history\/revision of your code files;\u00a0(What!! what did you say!!! Say again … )<\/em><\/p>\n

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Surprised !! Ya its natural; I was too when I first tested this feature; Oliver Drobnik<\/a>\u00a0first highlighted this feature in his\u00a0blog post\u00a0<\/a>here<\/a>\u00a0after discussing with some Apple engineer. Infact\u00a0Xcode<\/a> autosaves the versions of all of your code files you created inside your project; (oh waoo, why I did never know this before? That sounds great) <\/i>You can view those revisions with respect to their time, compare them and can revert any file to your desire revision; You can even delete a revision to cleanup version history; (man, enough; I can’t wait more, Tell me where is that option? File menu, edit, project? in which menu? )<\/i><\/p>\n

Well, unlike eclipse<\/a> (a well know editor to develop java<\/a> based applications) Xcode<\/a>\u00a0doesn’t provide any viewer to view those revisions; (What!! are you in your senses!! No viewer? Then why the Xcode<\/a>\u00a0saves those revisions if it doesn’t allow us to view them? No man you are kidding han!!<\/i>) No, I’m not kidding, its true; Xcode<\/a>\u00a0doesn’t provide any viewer to view those revisions; The questions why Xcode<\/a>\u00a0saves them, is still unanswered to me; But hold your breath, there is always a back door to step into home; (: We shall use TextEdit<\/a>\u00a0application to view and restore those revisions; (TextEdit<\/a> application!!! Man you know what, too many surprises in a row are injurious to health; Take care of me bro please)\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

To view the revision of any file, open it in TextEdit<\/a> and chose File -> Revert Document option; You will see the current version and all previous revisions side by side as shown in below screenshot;<\/p>\n

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I think the layout is pretty self descriptive; Select the revision from timeline at right and Restore it; To delete any revision just click the file name in title bar and select Delete Revision option; (Yess, its showing me complete history, from the day when I created this file; Thumbs up bro, +1)<\/i><\/p>\n

Usage<\/strong>: Sometimes when you are working on a module or fixing a bug, soon you feel that you have messed up all the code; Even the previously implemented thing are not working now; You try to undo your changes but you aren’t sure\u00a0 what was the stable state of your code; Don’t worry; Just take a sip of coke<\/a> and revert your code; Simple enough; You can do it by reverting your code to, let say, the code of 2 hours before, or the code state at day end of yesterday;<\/p>\n

Smiling han!!! You should; (:
\nHappy development;<\/p>\n

Next Step:<\/strong> File a feature request at Apple development forum<\/a> to add viewer to view, compare and restore the revisions; (Ya they should add such viewer inside the Xcode; I’m gone add my ticket there)<\/i><\/p>\n

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