In plain English
This means looking at saved states of one item to see what changed. The versions are two or more saved forms of the same file, document, or other item, checked for differences.
In context
Here, "compare versions" labels the action of examining two or more saved versions of the same item to identify their differences.
- Situation
- Creating, saving, sharing, versioning, and restoring files
- What it communicates
- labels the action for viewing differences between saved versions.
Meaning limits
The term itself does not say which saved versions are being examined, only that the action is for finding differences among versions of the same item.
Examples
“She compared versions of the same report to find the sentences that had changed.”
“To check what was altered, compare versions of the draft from Monday and Thursday.”