GitLens
Git supercharged
GitLens supercharges the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and code lens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more.
Settings
For advanced customizations refer to the GitLens docs and edit your User Settings
Views Side Bar Layout
Default Date/Time Display
Keyboard Shortcuts
Search for gitlens in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor to see the shortcuts and to customize them further
Menus & Toolbars
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens
When enabled the annotation can be scrolled into view when it is outside the viewport
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens.currentLine Use the GitLens: Toggle Line Blame Annotations command to override this setting for the current window
Indicator color reflects the age of the most recent change (hot or cold), while indicator brightness ranges from bright (newer) to dim (older) based on the relative age
Compacts (deduplicates) matching adjacent blame annotations
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens.blame Use the command to turn the annotations on or off Press Esc to turn off the annotations
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens.codeLens Use the GitLens: Toggle Git Code Lens command to override this setting for the current window
Gutter Heatmap
Adds on-demand heatmap (age) indicator to the edge of the gutter to show how
recently lines were changed
Indicator color reflects the age of the most recent change (hot or cold), while
indicator brightness ranges from bright (newer) to dim (older) based on the relative
age
Use the command to turn the annotations on or off Press Esc to turn off the annotations
Recent Changes
Adds on-demand recent changes annotations to highlight lines changed by the most recent commit
Use the command to turn the annotations on or off Press Esc to turn off the annotations
Avoids clearing the previous blame information when changing lines to reduce status bar "flashing"
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens.statusBar Use the GitLens: Toggle Line Blame Annotations command to override this setting for the current window
Compacts (flattens) unnecessary nesting when using a tree layouts
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens.views.repositories or gitlens.views
File History view
Adds a File History view to visualize, navigate, and explore the revision history of the current file
Line History view
Adds a Line History view to visualize, navigate, and explore the revision history of the selected lines of current file
Search Commits view
Adds a Search Commits view to search and explore commit histories by message, author, files, id, etc
Compacts (flattens) unnecessary nesting when using a tree layouts
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens.views.search or gitlens.views
Compacts (flattens) unnecessary nesting when using a tree layouts
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens.views.compare or gitlens.views
For more advanced customizations or to add your own modes, open User Settings and search for gitlens.modes Use the GitLens: Switch Mode command to quickly switch the active mode Use the GitLens: Toggle Review Mode command to toggle Review mode Use the GitLens: Toggle Zen Mode command to toggle Zen mode