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Archived Beta Discussions => SlickEdit 201x Beta Discussions => SlickEdit 2017 v22 Beta Discussion => Topic started by: jporkkahtc on August 09, 2017, 07:03:50 PM
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Great that File History can now efficiently save history for large files.
However, there is no quick way to get to old versions.
I've got a text file, about 20MB.
I edited it several times and saved - to create a backup history.
The last edit I deleted the majority of the file - leaving just 2KB.
Now, to restore the original I have to use BackupHistory.
BackupHistory always displays a side-by-side Diff.
A side-by-side Diff on a large file is *really slow*, taking about 48 seconds according to the Slick profiler.
The context menu in BackupHistory on the file versions currently has just 1 menu items, "Compare version X to version Y".
#1: It should also include a few extra items:
- Open This version
- Restore this version (overwriting the current file with this one)
- View this version
This would allow me to get to old versions much quicker - especially when I do not need to see the diff at all.
#2: Also it should be possible to abort the diffing in BackupHistory -- If I clicked on a large file here I could be waiting for many minutes with no way to abort this thing.
#3: In BackupHistory, the top-left pane should show the file size along with the date - given that we can have large files now, the filesize is a big clue that accessing it may be really slow.
It can also be helpful when trying to find the version with a lot of changes.
#4: Nitpick: In BackupHistory, the top-left pane shows "Version", but in the top-right pane it shows "Revision".
Which is it, a version or a revision?
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I'm working on speeding this dialog up right now, and I'll see how many of these ideas I can incorporate.
Some of this is available in the Backup History tool window.
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Cool - I never looked at that toolwindow -- thanks.