History tab
The History tab is added to the Version Control tool window Alt+9 on invoking the Show History or Show History for Selection action. A new tab is created for each file or directory with the following name: History: <file_name>. The set of toolbar buttons differs slightly depending on your version control system.
The asterisk next to a commit marks commits where the author and the user who committed the changes are different.
Item | Tooltip and Shortcut | Description |
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Branch | Branch filter | Click Branch and select a branch to review changes made to a file within this branch. |
| Refresh | Click this button to refresh the current information. |
| Show Diff Ctrl+D | Click this button to compare the selected revision of a file with its previous revision in the Diff Viewer. |
| Show All Affected Files Alt+Shift+A | Click this button to open the Paths Affected in Revision dialog, where you can view all files that were modified in the selected revision. |
| View Options | Click to choose the amount of information you want to see in the History view. You can also select the Show Commit Timestamp option if you want IntelliJ IDEA to show the commit timestamp instead of the time when a change was authored. Also, select the type of info you want to see:
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| Open on GitHub | Click this button to open the page that corresponds to the selected commit on GitHub. |
| Open on GitLab | Click this button to open the page that corresponds to the selected commit on GitLab. |
| Enable Git Log Indexing | Click this button to improve working with history of changes across the IDE. Indexing project repositories allows:
To disable this option, go to . |
| Renaming column | Click this column to expand it and review the history of file's renaming. Hover over the column to see the changes in the file's path. |
