Patent ID: 8775974

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