changehistory
Change history is a chronological record of changes made to an artifact, such as a document, a software codebase, or a dataset. It captures what changed, when the change occurred, who made it, and why, providing traceability, accountability, and a basis for debugging, auditing, and rollback.
In software development, change history is typically maintained by version control systems. Each recorded change, or
Change history is related but not identical to changelogs and release notes. A continuous change history records
Best practices for maintaining change history include writing meaningful, atomic commit messages, preserving history in shared
Common tools include Git, Subversion, and Mercurial, which store and display histories through logs and diffs.