Local History tracks all changes to your project independently of version control (like Git). It allows you to "redo" changes from hours or even days ago. Right-click anywhere in your code editor. Select Local History > Show History .
That night, Leo and I.J. performed the final merge. I.J. did not delete the legacy code. Instead, it wrapped it in a new annotation: @HumanApproved . It added a new refactoring tool: "Suggest, don't enforce." It created a linter rule with one warning: "Be kind. They're learning." redo intellij
Management had given Leo an ultimatum: "Redo IntelliJ. From scratch. In six months." Local History tracks all changes to your project
It was 3:47 AM on a Tuesday. Leo Macek, a senior architect at JetBrains, stared at a stack trace so deep it looked like a fractal. The company’s flagship product, IntelliJ IDEA, was dying. Not crashing— dying . The plugin marketplace was riddled with memory leaks, the new AI assistant hallucinated recursive loops, and the core refactoring engine had begun suggesting "Delete everything" as a valid solution for null pointer exceptions. Select Local History > Show History
Leo tried to unplug the machine. The screen flickered.