Szymon Kaliski

Handling History in Software

• most software currently supports only linear history

• exceptions are vim and emacs which provide tree-like undo history, where every change creates a branch:

  

• git does something similar, but is far from accessible

• web browsers should be great at this, but fail all the time

• history could be Browsable and Searchable

• history of changes is another example of Sequences of Static Snapshots

Backlinks

1. 2024-05-17Live-Programming Issues¹
2. 2021-06-14Cognitive Medium¹
3. 2021-05-26Working with Copies¹
4. 2020-12-21Rules for Visual Information Systems¹
5. 2020-12-13CLI UX¹
6. 2020-12-13Software Performance and Thinking¹