# Finding the changes **URL:** \ **Category:** CMS Development\ **Tags:** design-manager, local-development, free, professional, starter\ **Created:** [August 2, 2023, 9:53am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/finding-the-changes/86624 "2023-08-02T09:53:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Track](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Track](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Track)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 9:53am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/finding-the-changes/86624/1 "2023-08-02T09:53:27Z")
Heya, I want my Git tool (GitKraken) to show me the differences between what I have on ‘my local branch’ compared to what I’m fetching from the HubSpot account (Design Tools). Lets say I just did a fresh upload to the account so that what I have locally on my machine is 1:1 with what’s in the Design Tools theme folder. **What I expected** : if I change code lines inside Design Tools and press “Publish changes” I should be getting those changes if I run hs fetch, and those changes would appear in GitKraken as “unstages changes”/new/changed stuff. **What actually happens** : I modify code lines in the Design Tools, but when I fetch I don’t get those changes. No changes picked up in GitKraken and no trace of the modified code lines locally in the file in question. The documentation only claim to fetch **files** or **directory** with child folders/files, and it doesn’t overwrite existing files without using the --overwrite flag. Issue is that using the --overwrite does the overwriting, but in the act it also provide its own take on formatting… which to a Git tool looks like ‘everything’ has changed. Making it impossible to determine what changes was done directly inside the Design Tools compared to what I have locally. Am I wrong to expect **hs fetch** to provide me a way to see potential changes that only were made via the Design Tools? I need a way to detect potential changes between my local project and the uploaded project. ![Track_0-1690969955744.jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/0/d/0db0487c95815366e0ecf822c5cb8a69b9db2ba9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Track](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Track](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Track)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/finding-the-changes/86624/2 "2023-08-02T10:59:42Z")
--overwrite only seems to overwrite the module’s ‘fields.json’ and ‘meta.json’ for whatever reason. Never the .css or .js files. So I take it that the “design-tool-formatting” only ‘modify’ those files (e.g. adding ’ “display\_width” : null, ’ etc that is not present (or needed) locally. \*don’t misunderstand me; I don’t want these files to show up as changes regardless (unless they actually differ) That, and all images uploaded via the theme ---
**Author:** ![Track](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Track](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Track)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/finding-the-changes/86624/3 "2023-08-02T11:11:42Z")
Does the Design Tool have a History log that can list all “manual actions” done via the Design Tool by any chance? I see that if I close all “tabs” inside the Design Tools there is a “Recently edited files”, but it won’t show me what html/css lines or field properties that have been changed. ---
**Author:** ![Track](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Track](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Track)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/finding-the-changes/86624/4 "2023-08-02T12:43:48Z")
I’ve found that there is something called ‘Revision History’, but it won’t show as an option when right clicking the theme/project folder in the Design Tools - it will only appear as an option if I right click a specific file… and that doesn’t really help as that would require me to go through -every- file in the Design Tool project and check if \*someone\* has done a manual edit since last ‘official hs upload’. And even then, the revision won’t show me specificly what has changed, only that \*something\* has changed. (no red markers in css/html/js, or notes that field(s) have changed)