[TxMt] [POLL] Infinite UNDOs / Transparent History management?

Wed Aug 15 20:49:43 UTC 2007

Hey all,

Really good idea.  Can you make the UI so if we use an SCM the the rev 
number is associated with that submission?  i.e

[10:25 8/10/07] AutoSaved
[10:27 8/10/07] Saved   - Commited Rev #12654
[11:33 8/14/07] Saved
[11:34 8/14/07] AutoSaved 
[11:35 8/14/07] Saved - Commited Rev #12672

And alternatively we can wipe the history to a value ( like 500 saves or 
20 SCM commits/submits )  Are we planning to take advantage of time 
machine on this??

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Steven M. Klass

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[TxMt] [POLL] Infinite UNDOs / Transparent History management?

Ahoy me TextMateys,
I just had a kindof a neat idea.

TextMateHistoryManagement

Currently, when you do a thousand changes in textmate and then close your 
document, all your changes are totally lost :(

What if every time you saved your document, I caught that action, backed 
up your original version and the new one and then archived it away in a 
magical forrest for safekeeping. Then when you open that document up again 
you have the option to undo every previous save you've ever made to the 
document? And you can even see how many changes were made every time you 
saved with a timestamp and a full diff and all kinds of crazy stuff?

I know tons of people use some kind of SCM like subversion or mercurial or 
something, but you normally only commit working changes and projects that 
you're working on. Instead, this TextMateHistoryManagement  would keep 
track of every single change you make to every single document you ever 
save, good changes or bad ones, who cares, just everything.

Personally, I think this would be stinking awesome to the power of 
infinity -1 squared! (aka, it'd be nifty)

So, as far as UI goes…

I want a new history to be saved every time I save the document.
I want to have a nice GUI palette like photoshop to see a list of changes.
That list shows the filename, hide-able full file path, timestamp and the 
number of lines added, removed or changed in that version.
There should be a hide-able diff drawer or area with a tabbed safari-esque 
view with tabs for each diff available. Diff that version to it's parent, 
the selected items to eachother, or the selected item with your open 
version.

There are some obvious technical hurdles to leap, but it's all totally 
doable. The purpose of this poll is to see if anyone would be interested 
in this from a fronend user interface level. I already know how I'm likely 
going to actually build this thing, and we can talk more about that later.

What I'm most interested in is workflow.
I'd like us all to come up with the best and most genericly usable 
workflow for everyone. Maybe some advanced stuff for the nerds, but I want 
this as mostly a noob feature and for people who don't want to have to 
care about version control or whatever.

For example, with the implementation that I just suggested, you could do 
this…

You're working on a version of some random webpage, then someone emails 
you a changed version. You could just replace your current file with that 
one and open it up and check your history palette to see the changes. 
(assuming you had opened and saved the original file in textmate at some 
point)

You'd never had to install or configure or set up anything. It should all 
just work™

Thoughts?

thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — bundleForge

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