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Show history in Team Explorer

Show history in Team Explorer - Visual Studio Tutorial

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Show history in Team Explorer

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- [Instructor] To view the history in Visual Studio, go to team explorer. Then go to home. You're looking for sync. And then in sync, you're looking for the actions dropdown. Choose view history. This is showing some of the same information you just saw in Git log and in PowerShell. So over here on the left, you see this line going up. This represents any branches. Since I haven't branched any code yet, it's just a straight line and each of these light blue dots represents one commit. When I hover over one of the commits, let's look at this one here where I added the image files. When I hover over this commit, I can see a tool tip that pops up with more information. Now if I'd rather see that information onscreen instead of in a pop up, I can right-click here and choose view commit details. Now I can see who committed, the commit identifier, the date and time, what the parent note is, the commit information, I added…

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