Project navigator filter "Show only recent files"

For seeing the recent files, first go to the Project Navigator with cmd+1

On the bottom of it, there is a filter field with two symbols on the right.

• The right one is "Show only files with source-control status", which filters all files that were added or changed and could be comitted.
• The left of those two is "Show only recent files", and it shows the files that you have recently changed

The question is how to set the time interval for „recent“, because it seems quite random at times.

The feature is generelly very useful during refactoring, if you commit your progress regularily.

Klaus

P.S.: Of course I checked the XCode prefs, with no avail

It seems that files in "show only recent files" are the same as recent in the popup menu.

Here you can change some filter parameter.

Click on the button with the 4 squares at the top over the lines numbers

You can select the number of recent files in last item of the pop up menu

So recent is not time-based but number-based.