Time Travel

CoCalc calls “Time Travel” the historic recording of all changes in a file. This works for all text-based documents in a Frame Editor, Jupyter Notebooks, Sage Worksheets, or LaTeX Editor.

To open it, click on the light blue button with the reversed cirular arrow around a clock:

Then you can see the underlying history, e.g. here for exactly this time-travel.rst file of the documentation in front of you.

• (1) is the control knob of the slider
• (2) to view changes between two revisions
• (3) to revert the file back to the given revision. This doesn’t undo the history, but adds a new entry at the end. No changes get lost.

For very long histories, another button will show up to load the entire history.

With [x] Changes enabled, you get a two-ended slider to see the changes between these two revisions:

For more information, read this blog post about time travel.