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Multi-contextual delta navigation in a compare view

  • US 8,775,974 B2
  • Filed: 12/21/2005
  • Issued: 07/08/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for multi-contextual navigation, the method comprising:

  • rendering in a version control system (VCS) executing in memory of a computer one or more objects for an artifact utilizing a default contextual view of the one or more objects;

    rendering, upon determining the existence of a relocated object, an icon configured to be a visual symbol indicating at least one relocated object adjacent to deltas among the one or more objects in the default contextual view;

    rendering, upon determining the existence of a conflicted object, a different icon configured to be a visual symbol indicating at least one conflicted object adjacent to deltas among the one or more objects in the default contextual view;

    selecting one of the one or more objects in the default contextual view and directing an inward navigation to a different object in the default contextual view;

    determining a different contextual view most suitable for the different object; and

    providing in the VCS, subsequent to the determination of the different contextual view most suitable for the different object, at least a portion of the one or more objects defined by the different object responsive to the directing of the inward navigation to the different object.

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