Displaying revision history

This section explains how to view the revision history of a file, folder, or changelist. For information on file revisions in labels, see Retrieve file revisions in a label

Files

To display a file’s revision history, right-click the file icon and choose File History. The History tab displays the file’s history, including integration and label history. If a file revision is currently in your workspace, it is indicated with a red box: p4v file rev have edit .

To get a specific revision into your workspace, right-click a revision on the History tab and choose Get This Revision.

To view a preview of a revision’s content, select the revision on the History tab; then select the Preview tab at the bottom of the Details pane. This shows a preview of any file at any revision. You can resize this tab to view a larger version of the file.

To display branching history, click branchhistory and choose the desired history from the drop-down menu.

If the file is an image, you can view thumbnails of the image by selecting View > Show Files As and selecting the thumbnail size that you want to view.

To compare two file revisions, click and drag one revision to the other. P4V launches the file diff utility and displays the differences.

Folders

To display a folder’s revision history, right-click the folder icon and choose Folder History. The History tab displays the folder’s revision history.

To compare two folder revisions, click and drag one revision to the other. P4V launches the Folder Diff Utility.

Changelists

To get the revision of a changelist into your workspace, right-click the changelist and choose Get Revision. In the Get Revision dialog, specify the files you want to get, the revision number, any applicable options, and click Get Revision.

To get the revision of all files in the changelist, right-click the changelist and choose Get These Revisions.

Warning

Get These Revisions immediately force-syncs the files of this changelist to your workspace client. There is no intermediary step that provides you the option to cancel the operation.