History is broken

[delzey]

Type: Bug

Backing out of code work (CTL+z) to reference point, reviewing code, No changes made, then (CTL+y) to get back to last edit loses code work. I miss this coming from Netbeans, Several other features too that you don't think about until they are not there. Like full history compare.

VS Code version: Code 1.79.1 (4cb974a7aed77a74c7813bdccd99ee0d04901215, 2023-06-12T16:14:05.102Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045 Modes:

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A/B Experiments

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[vscodenpa]

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Happy Coding!

[gjsjohnmurray]

Have you explored the Timeline view?

[delzey]

Hi John - Yes, the Timeline does not go back that far on some of the files. Not sure why? Some files I see 6 days, others a week. More recent files edited, it only shows a few hours when the file was written to many times previously. Will renaming a file cause this problem? I have renamed a few files from (Example: pagescript to pageScript)

I am going to try that to see if it affects the file...

UPDATE

I can confirm renaming a file is shown correctly in the Timeline. ONLY if renamed using VS Code. The file was created and modified in VS Code May 20. Since then there have been many changes. In reviewing the current file, the latest history shows a small modification I did yesterday, and the fact that I renamed it twice today. Renaming the file in Explorer outside of VS Code is not shown. Expected behaviour I am sure. The file Timeline of edits for the past two days remain. The other edits from all of May/June are lost.

On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 11:43 AM John Murray @.***> wrote:

Have you explored the Timeline view?

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[bpasero]

We cannot track renames via our file watcher, so we record a delete+add and thus loose the history connection. But you can find entries from the local history to restore via this command:

You can search for any file there and bring up the full history.

[delzey]

Understood. This is still unrelated the file explained below. The file below was created by right click add file in VSC on May 20. Written to several times. When I made changes and edits on Jun 16, the history was not there. I again used VSC to modify the file, decided to back out all of the changes I did using CTL+Z, copied two lines, used CTL+Y to redo the changes, it only remembered half of the total. I checked file Timeline, showed the save, changes not there either.

I can repeat this behavior.

The file is a JavaScript file and I am prototyping a web app. I will make some changes, save, refresh the web page, repeat.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:32 AM Benjamin Pasero @.***> wrote:

We cannot track renames via our file watcher, so we record a delete+add. But you can find entries from the local history to restore via this command: [image: image] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/900690/246773342-828bfea9-fac9-4d0f-b3e0-ff3dcafe8ce1.png

You can search for any file there and bring up the full history.

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[bpasero]

Well, the number of entries to local history is limited by settings:

In other words, the history is not unbounded.

[vscodenpa]

This issue has been closed automatically because it needs more information and has not had recent activity. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!