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Bug 348378

Summary:	[History] Local History should allow to remove history for files/folders
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	Resources	Assignee:	Platform-Resources-Inbox <platform-resources-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen
Version:	3.7	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Markus Keller

2011-06-06 06:15:00 EDT

I20110603-0909

The Local History should allow to remove history for selected files or folders.

I used the Eclipse text editor to edit a file with sensitive data. After I removed the file from its project (actually removed the link to the parent folder), the contents were still available via "context menu > Restore from Local History...".

I found no way to remove entries from the local history. A good solution would be a button on the Resources properties page that allows to remove local history for the project/folder/file. Alternatively, the "Restore from Local History" dialog could allow multi-selection and offer a "Permanently Delete..." button.

My workaround was to export the contents of the project, delete the project from the workspace, and then import it again.

Comment 1 Markus Keller

2011-06-06 11:51:26 EDT

I intentionally left the severity at Normal because I actually had to accept some  more loss of data when I had to remove the history of 2 files.

Comment 2 Szymon Brandys

2011-06-27 08:20:15 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> I intentionally left the severity at Normal because I actually had to accept
> some  more loss of data when I had to remove the history of 2 files.

Right, there is no way to delete sensitive data from the history. Of course you can keep saving content till you reach 'Maximum entries per file' :-)

Comment 3 Markus Keller

2011-06-27 11:39:25 EDT

> Of course you
> can keep saving content till you reach 'Maximum entries per file' :-)

Which is infinity here, since I have switched off the limits... ;-)

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:54:08 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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