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Version history for spec sheets

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Specs change. A requirement is dropped, a limit is revised, a product moves from revision B to C. The question that comes up later is almost always the same: what did it say before, and who changed it?

The problem with files

Without history, teams keep copies named final, final-v2 and final-really. Nobody is sure which one was sent to the client, and a quiet edit can go unnoticed until something is built to the wrong number.

What it does

Version history is included in the Team plan. It keeps earlier versions of a sheet, shows what changed between two versions, and lets you restore an earlier one.

Because a sheet is a set of named fields, a change can be described per field ("the sleep-current limit changed") instead of as a wall of text.

Related: the other team features.

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