BitKeeper - The Scalable Distributed Software Configuration Management System

There are ways to browse the repository both graphically and via the command line. The following example shows you how to browse a repository and file history using the graphical revision history browser, bk revtool.

Repository history is grouped by changesets. A changeset is a grouping of one or more changes to one or more files, and it is what is propagated between BitKeeper repositories. Changesets are stored in a revision controlled file named ChangeSet and can be browsed graphically. To do so:

cd bk_demo
bk revtool

When in bk revtool, do:

Click on Select Range.
Click on All Changes.

Things to notice:

invoking bk revtool with no file argument displays the history of the entire repository, which is contained in the ChangeSet file.

the top window displays boxes representing changesets containing the name of the person who made the changeset and the changeset revision. Tagged changesets are highlighted with a yellow box.

the bottom window displays changeset information.

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