Eclipse Backup - how to get back to a specific date

Question

I've heard that Eclipse has a few fancy backup options. I've been working on an Eclipse project (using Pydev), and I would like to somehow switch back to the way the project was a few days ago. Is there such an option?

What I've found till now was only the backup files (specifically what I changed and when), but I don't know how to get to the exact state the whole project was on a specific date.

Please help :-(

Answer 1

Eclipse has Replace With > Local History for individual files (and Restore from Local History for deleted files).

By default the local history is only kept for a few days, you can configure this in Preferences > Workspace > Local History.

For anything more complex you can use one of the many source control systems supported by Eclipse such as SVN or Git. This is worth doing just for the extra backup and does not require a separate server.