Local History

A Sublime Text 2/3 plugin for maintaining local history of files

Benefits

Every time you modify a file, a copy of the old contents is kept in the local history.
At any time, you can compare or replace a file with any older version from the history.
View incremental diff of any file from the history.
It can help you out when you change or delete a file by accident.
The history can also help you out when your workspace has a catastrophic problem or if you get disk errors that corrupt your workspace files.
Each file revision is stored in a separate file (with full path) inside the .sublime/history folder of your home directory. e.g., /Users/vrana/.sublime/history/foo/bar/Oct.14.2012_14.48.47.history.py

Installation

With the Package Control plugin: The easiest way to install this plugin is through Package Control

Without Git: Download the latest source zip from github and extract the files to your Sublime Text "Packages" directory, into a new directory named Local History.

With Git: Clone the repository in your Sublime Text "Packages" directory:

git clone https://github.com/vishr/local-history.git "Local History"

The "Packages" directory location:

OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 2/Packages/
Linux: ~/.Sublime Text 2/Packages/
Windows: %APPDATA%/Sublime Text 2/Packages/

Usage

Open | Compare | Replace | Incremental Diff

Delete All

Settings

{
  "file_history_retention": 30, // In days
  "file_size_limit": 262144 // 256 KiB
}

Caveats

As this plugin is continuously evolving, please delete the history and reinstall the plugin incase you face any problems.