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 settings docs and edit your User Settings
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
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens.gitExplorer or gitlens.explorers
GitLens File History Explorer
Adds a GitLens File History explorer to visualize the history of the current file
GitLens Results Explorer
Adds an on-demand GitLens Results explorer to navigate and explore commits, histories, and searches, or visualize comparisons between branches, tags, commits, and more
For more advanced customizations open User Settings and search for gitlens.resultsExplorer or gitlens.explorers
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
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
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
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
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
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
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