Multi-contextual delta navigation in a compare view

A development platform data processing system configured for processing deltas for an ancestor artifact and a contributor artifact for the ancestor artifact, the data processing system comprising:

• a computing system comprising at least one computer the computer comprising at least one processor and memory;
• a version control system (VCS) executing in the memory of the computing system;
• a compare view in the VCS, the compare view including, upon determining the existence of a relocated object, at least one icon configured to be a visual symbol indicating at least one of a relocated object adjacent to deltas, and the compare view including, 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;
• a view table coupled to the compare view, the view table configured to store different default contextual views for different nodes in a hierarchical representation of an artifact;
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• delta navigation logic coupled to the compare view, the delta navigation logic comprising program code enabled to respond to inward navigation directives for a node in a default contextual view of the artifact to a different node in the default contextual view of the artifact, to determine in the view table a different contextual view most suitable for the different node from the stored different default contextual views, to render subsequent to the determination of the different contextual view at least a portion of the artifact utilizing the different contextual view specified in the view table, the different contextual view comprising a contextual view selected from the group consisting of diagrammatic contextual view, a properties contextual view and a textual contextual view.

A computer program product comprising a computer usable storage device having computer usable program code for multi-contextual navigation, the computer program product including:

• computer usable program code for rendering in a version control system (VCS) executing in memory of a computer a plurality of one or more objects for an artifact utilizing a default contextual view of the plurality of one or more objects;
• computer usable program code for rendering, upon determining the existence of a relocated object, at least one icon configured to be a visual symbol indicating at least one of a relocated object adjacent to deltas among the one or more objects in the default contextual view;
• computer usable program code for 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;
• computer usable program code for selecting one of the a plurality of one or more objects in the default contextual view and directing an inward navigation to a different object in the default contextual view;
• computer usable program code for determining a different contextual view most suitable for the different object;
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• computer usable program code for 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 plurality of one or more objects defined by the different object responsive to the directing of the inward navigation to the different object.