HISTORICAL VIEW OF OPEN FILES

摘要

Managing versions of an electronic entity comprising many independently managed, but mutually-dependent, subcomponents can be challenging. File management functionality is provided for use with an integrated development environment to produce a visual indication of the relationships among the subcomponents. The approach described herein provides an improvement over source code control systems and backup systems in the ability to revert the state of one or more files as their content existed at an historical time point. The technique does not require a user to predict in advance at which time points the content state of one or more files will be interesting as historical time points for future use.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
displaying, by a processor, a graph of a plurality of interdependent files on a computer display, the graph depicting, for each file of the plurality of interdependent files, a graphical representation of a state of the file over a time period, wherein the set of interdependent files are related such that a change to a state of a first file in the plurality of interdependent files requires a change to a state of at least one second file in the plurality of interdependent files; receiving, by the processor, a request to create an environment corresponding to a particular time point in the time period; and creating, by the processor, the environment corresponding to the particular time point comprising the plurality of interdependent files, wherein file contents of each file in a subset of the plurality of interdependent files is reverted to reflect the state of each file at the particular time point.