GitLens

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 the history of a file or branch, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and so much more.

GitLens provides an unobtrusive blame annotation at the end of the current line, a status bar item showing the commit information (author and date, by default) of the current line, code lens showing the most recent commit and # of authors of the file and/or code block, and many commands for exploring commits and histories, comparing and navigating revisions, stash access, repository status, and more. GitLens is also highly customizable to meet your specific needs — find code lens intrusive or the current line blame annotation distracting — no problem, it is easy to turn them off or change how they behave.

Preview

Features blame annotations, code lens, status bar details, quick pick menus for navigation and exploration, compare with previous, and more

Quick Access Settings

While GitLens is highly customizable and provides many configuration settings, here are the most important ones for controlling GitLens' behavior

Name	Description
gitlens.blame.line.enabled	Specifies whether or not to provide a blame annotation for the current line, by default Use the Toggle Line Blame Annotations command (gitlens.toggleLineBlame) to toggle the annotations on and off for the current session
gitlens.codeLens.enabled	Specifies whether or not to provide any Git code lens, by default Use the Toggle Git Code Lens command (gitlens.toggleCodeLens) to toggle the Git code lens on and off for the current session
gitlens.gitExplorer.enabled	Specifies whether or not to show the GitLens view
gitlens.statusBar.enabled	Specifies whether or not to provide blame information on the status bar
gitlens.keymap	Specifies the keymap to use for GitLens shortcut keys standard - adds a standard set of shortcut keys chorded - adds a chorded set of shortcut keys that all start with Ctrl+Shift+G (⌥⌘G on macOS) none - no shortcut keys will be added

Features

Git Blame Annotations

• Adds an unobtrusive, highly customizable and themable, Git blame annotation to the end of the current line (optional, on by default)

  

  • Contains the author, date, and message of the line's most recent commit, by default

  • Adds a details hover annotation to the current line annotation, which provides more commit details (optional, on by default)

    

    • Provides a quick-access command bar with Open Changes, Blame Previous Revision, Open in Remote, and Show More Actions command buttons
    • Clicking the commit id will run the Show Commit Details command (gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails)

  • Adds a changes (diff) hover annotation to the current line annotation, which provides instant access to the line's previous version (optional, on by default)

    

    • Clicking on Changes will run the Compare File Revisions command (gitlens.diffWith)
    • Clicking the current and previous commit ids will run the Show Commit Details command (gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails)

• Adds on-demand, beautiful, highly customizable and themable, Git blame annotations of the whole file

  

  • Choose between gutter (default) and hover annotation styles

  • Contains the commit message and date, by default

  • Adds a details hover annotation to the line's annotation, which provides more commit details (optional, on by default)

    

    • Provides a quick-access command bar with Open Changes, Blame Previous Revision, Open in Remote, and Show More Actions command buttons
    • Clicking the commit id will run the Show Commit Details command (gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails)

  • Adds a changes` (diff) hover annotation to the line's annotation, which provides instant access to the line's previous version (optional, on by default)

    • Clicking on Changes will run the Compare File Revisions command (gitlens.diffWith)
    • Clicking the current and previous commit ids will run the Show Commit Details command (gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails)

  • Adds a heatmap (age) indicator to the gutter annotations (on right edge by default), which provides an easy, at-a-glance way to tell the age of a line (optional, on by default)

    • Indicator ranges from bright yellow (newer) to dark brown (older)

  • Press Escape to quickly toggle the annotations off

• Adds customizable blame information about the current line to the status bar (optional, on by default)

  

  • Contains the commit author and date, by default
  • Clicking the status bar item will, by default, show a commit details quick pick menu with commands for comparing, navigating and exploring commits, and more
  • Provides customizable click behavior — choose between one of the following
    • Toggle file blame annotations on and off
    • Toggle code lens on and off
    • Compare the line commit with the previous commit
    • Compare the line commit with the working tree
    • Show a quick pick menu with details and commands for the commit (default)
    • Show a quick pick menu with file details and commands for the commit
    • Show a quick pick menu with the commit history of the file
    • Show a quick pick menu with the commit history of the current branch

• Adds a Toggle File Blame Annotations command (gitlens.toggleFileBlame) with a shortcut of alt+b to toggle the file blame annotations on and off

  • Also adds a Show File Blame Annotations command (gitlens.showFileBlame)

• Adds a Toggle Line Blame Annotations command (gitlens.toggleLineBlame) to toggle the current line blame annotations on and off

  • Also adds a Show Line Blame Annotations command (gitlens.showLineBlame)

Git Heatmap Annotations

• Adds on-demand heatmap annotations of the whole file

  • Displays a heatmap (age) indicator near the gutter, which provides an easy, at-a-glance way to tell the age of a line
    • Indicator ranges from bright yellow (newer) to dark brown (older)
  • Press Escape to quickly toggle the annotations off

• Adds Toggle File Heatmap Annotations command (gitlens.toggleFileHeatmap) to toggle the heatmap annotations on and off

Git Recent Changes Annotations

• Adds on-demand, customizable and themable, recent changes annotations of the whole file

  • Highlights all of lines changed in the most recent commit
  • Adds a details hover annotation to each line, which provides more commit details (optional, on by default)
    • Clicking the commit id will run the Show Commit Details command (gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails)
  • Adds a changes (diff) hover annotation to each line, which provides instant access to the line's previous version (optional, on by default)
    • Clicking on Changes will run the Compare File Revisions command (gitlens.diffWith)
    • Clicking the current and previous commit ids will run the Show Commit Details command (gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails)
  • Press Escape to quickly toggle the annotations off

• Adds Toggle Recent File Changes Annotations command (gitlens.toggleFileRecentChanges) to toggle the recent changes annotations on and off

Git Code Lens

• Adds code lens to the top of the file and on code blocks (optional, on by default)

  

  • Recent Change — author and date of the most recent commit for the file or code block
    • Clicking the code lens will, by default, show a commit file details quick pick menu with commands for comparing, navigating and exploring commits, and more
  • Authors — number of authors of the file or code block and the most prominent author (if there is more than one)
    • Clicking the code lens will, by default, toggle the file Git blame annotations on and off of the whole file
    • Will be hidden if the author of the most recent commit is also the only author of the file or block, to avoid duplicate information and reduce visual noise

• Provides customizable click behavior for each code lens — choose between one of the following

  • Toggle file blame annotations on and off
  • Compare the commit with the previous commit
  • Show a quick pick menu with details and commands for the commit
  • Show a quick pick menu with file details and commands for the commit
  • Show a quick pick menu with the commit history of the file
  • Show a quick pick menu with the commit history of the current branch

• Adds a Toggle Git Code Lens command (gitlens.toggleCodeLens) with a shortcut of shift+alt+b to toggle the code lens on and off

Navigate and Explore

• Adds a customizable GitLens view to the Explorer activity

  • Repository View - provides a full repository explorer

    

    • Repository Status node — provides the status of the repository

      • Provides the name of the current branch, optionally its working tree status, and its upstream tracking branch and status (if available)
      • Provides indicator dots on the repository icon which denote the following:
        • None - up-to-date with the upstream
        • Green - ahead of the upstream
        • Red - behind the upstream
        • Yellow - both ahead of and behind the upstream
      • Provides additional upstream status nodes, if the current branch is tracking a remote branch and
        • is behind the upstream — quickly see and explore the specific commits behind the upstream (i.e. commits that haven't been pulled)
        • is ahead of the upstream — quickly see and explore the specific commits ahead of the upstream (i.e. commits that haven't been pushed)
      • Changed Files node — provides a at-a-glance view of all "working" changes
        • Expands to a file-based view of all changed files in the working tree (optionally) and/or all files in all commits ahead of the upstream
      • Provides a context menu with Open Repository in Remote, and Refresh commands

    • Branches node — provides a list of the local branches

      • Indicates which branch is the current branch and optionally shows the remote tracking branch
      • Expand each branch to easily see its revision (commit) history
        • Provides indicator dots on each branch icon which denote the following:
          • None - no upstream or up-to-date with the upstream
          • Green - ahead of the upstream
          • Red - behind the upstream
          • Yellow - both ahead of and behind the upstream
        • Expand each revision (commit) to quickly see the set of files changed, complete with status indicators for adds, changes, renames, and deletes
          • Provides a context menu on each revision (commit) with Open Commit in Remote, Open All Changes, Open All Changes with Working Tree, Open Files, Open Revisions, Copy Commit ID to Clipboard, Copy Commit Message to Clipboard, Show Commit Details, Compare with Index (HEAD), Compare with Working Tree, Compare with Selected, Select for Compare, Cherry Pick Commit (via Terminal), Revert Commit (via Terminal), Rebase to Commit (via Terminal), Reset to Commit (via Terminal), Create Branch (via Terminal)..., Create Tag (via Terminal)..., and Refresh commands
          • Provides a context menu on each changed file with Open Changes, Open Changes with Working File, Open File, Open Revision, Open File in Remote, Open Revision in Remote, Apply Changes, and Show Commit File Details commands
        • Provides a context menu on each branch with Open Branch in Remote, Compare with Index (HEAD), Compare with Working Tree, Compare with Remote, Compare with Selected, Compare Selected Ancestor with Working Tree, Select for Compare, Open Directory Compare with Working Tree, Checkout Branch (via Terminal), Merge Branch (via Terminal), Rebase (Interactive) Branch (via Terminal), Rebase (Interactive) Branch to Remote (via Terminal), Squash Branch into Commit (via Terminal), Create Branch (via Terminal)..., Delete Branch (via Terminal), Create Tag (via Terminal)..., and Refresh commands
      • Provides a context menu with Open Branches in Remote, and Refresh commands

    • Remotes node — provides a list of remotes

      • Indicates the direction of the remote (fetch, push, both), remote service (if applicable), and repository path
      • Expand each remote to see its list of branches
        • Expand each branch to easily see its revision (commit) history
          • Expand each revision (commit) to quickly see the set of files changed, complete with status indicators for adds, changes, renames, and deletes
            • Provides a context menu on each revision (commit) with Open Commit in Remote, Open All Changes, Open All Changes with Working Tree, Open Files, Open Revisions, Copy Commit ID to Clipboard, Copy Commit Message to Clipboard,Show Commit Details, Compare with Index (HEAD), Compare with Working Tree, Compare with Selected, Select for Compare, Cherry Pick Commit (via Terminal), Create Branch (via Terminal)..., Create Tag (via Terminal)..., and Refresh commands
            • Provides a context menu on each changed file with Open Changes, Open Changes with Working File, Open File, Open Revision, Open File in Remote, Open Revision in Remote, Apply Changes, Show File History, and Show Commit File Details commands
          • Provides a context menu on each remote branch with Open Branch in Remote, Compare with Index (HEAD), Compare with Working Tree, Compare with Selected, Compare Selected Ancestor with Working Tree, Select for Compare, Open Directory Compare with Working Tree, Checkout Branch (via Terminal), Merge Branch (via Terminal), Rebase (Interactive) Branch (via Terminal), Squash Branch into Commit (via Terminal), Create Branch (via Terminal)..., Delete Branch (via Terminal), Create Tag (via Terminal)..., and Refresh commands
        • Provides a context menu on each remote with Open Branches in Remote, Open Repository in Remote, Remove Remote (via Terminal), and Refresh commands
      • Provides a context menu with a Refresh command

    • Stashes node — provides a list of stashed changes

      • Expand each stash to quickly see the set of files stashed, complete with status indicators for adds, changes, renames, and deletes
        • Provides a context menu on each stash with Apply Stashed Changes (confirmation required), Delete Stashed Changes (confirmation required), Open All Changes, Open All Changes with Working Tree, Open Files, Open Revisions, Copy Commit Message to Clipboard, Compare with Index (HEAD), Compare with Working Tree, Compare with Selected, Select for Compare, and Refresh commands
        • Provides a context menu on each stashed file with Apply Changes, Open Changes, Open Changes with Working File, Open File, Open Revision, Open File in Remote, and Show File History commands
      • Provides a context menu with Stash Changes, and Refresh commands

    • Tags node — provides a list of tags

      • Expand each tag to easily see its revision (commit) history
        • Expand each revision (commit) to quickly see the set of files changed, complete with status indicators for adds, changes, renames, and deletes
          • Provides a context menu on each revision (commit) with Open Commit in Remote, Open All Changes, Open All Changes with Working Tree, Open Files, Open Revisions, Copy Commit ID to Clipboard, Copy Commit Message to Clipboard, Show Commit Details, Compare with Index (HEAD), Compare with Working Tree, Compare with Selected, Select for Compare, Cherry Pick Commit (via Terminal), Create Branch (via Terminal)..., Create Tag (via Terminal)..., and Refresh commands
          • Provides a context menu on each changed file with Open Changes, Open Changes with Working File, Open File, Open Revision, Open File in Remote, Open Revision in Remote, Apply Changes, and Show Commit File Details commands
        • Provides a context menu on each tag with Compare with Index (HEAD), Compare with Working Tree, Compare with Selected, Select for Compare, Open Directory Compare with Working Tree, Delete Tag (via Terminal), and Refresh commands
      • Provides a context menu with a Refresh command

  • History View - provides the revision history of the active file

    

    • Automatically updates to track the active editor
    • Provides a context menu with Open File, Open File in Remote, and Refresh commands
    • Provides a context menu on each revision (commit) with Open Changes, Open Changes with Working File, Open File, Open Revision, Open File in Remote, Open Revision in Remote, Apply Changes, and Show Commit File Details commands

  • Quickly switch between views using the Switch to Repository View or Switch to History View commands

  • Provides toolbar commands to Search Commits, Switch to Repository View or Switch to History View, and Refresh

• Adds a Search Commits command (gitlens.showCommitSearch) with a shortcut of alt+/ to search for commits by message, author, file(s), commit id, or code changes

  • Use <message> to search for commits with messages that match <message> -- See Git docs
  • Use @<pattern> to search for commits with authors that match <pattern> -- See Git docs
  • Use :<pattern> to search for commits with file names that match <pattern> -- See Git docs
  • Use #<sha> to search for a commit with id of <sha> -- See Git docs
  • Use ~<pattern> to search for commits with differences whose patch text contains added/removed lines that match <pattern> -- See Git docs
  • Use =<string> to search for commits with differences that change the number of occurrences of the specified string (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file -- See Git docs
  • Provides a Show in Results option to show the search results in the GitLens Results view

• Adds an on-demand, customizable GitLens Results view to the Explorer activity

  • Provides semi-persistent results for commit search, file history, and commit operations

    • Accessible via the following: Show Commit Search command (gitlens.showCommitSearch), Show File History command (gitlens.showQuickFileHistory), and Show Commit Details command (gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails)
    • Expand each revision (commit) to quickly see the set of files changed, complete with status indicators for adds, changes, renames, and deletes
      • Provides a context menu on each revision (commit) with Open Commit in Remote, Open All Changes, Open All Changes with Working Tree, Open Files, Open Revisions, Copy Commit ID to Clipboard, Copy Commit Message to Clipboard, Show Commit Details, Compare with Index (HEAD), Compare with Working Tree, Compare with Selected, Select for Compare, Cherry Pick Commit (via Terminal), Revert Commit (via Terminal), Rebase to Commit (via Terminal), Reset to Commit (via Terminal), Create Branch (via Terminal)..., Create Tag (via Terminal)..., and Refresh commands
        • Provides a context menu on each changed file with Open Changes, Open Changes with Working File, Open File, Open Revision, Open File in Remote, Open Revision in Remote, Apply Changes, and Show Commit File Details commands

  • Provides semi-persistent results for revision comparison operations

    • Accessible via the following: Compare with Index (HEAD) command (gitlens.explorers.compareWithHead), Compare with Remote command (gitlens.explorers.compareWithRemote), Compare with Working Tree command (gitlens.explorers.compareWithWorking), Compare with Selected command (gitlens.explorers.compareWithSelected), and Compare Selected Ancestor with Working Tree command (gitlens.explorers.compareSelectedAncestorWithWorking)
    • Commits node — provides a list of the commits between the compared revisions (branches or commits)
      • Expand each revision (commit) to quickly see the set of files changed, complete with status indicators for adds, changes, renames, and deletes
        • Provides a context menu on each revision (commit) with Open Commit in Remote, Open All Changes, Open All Changes with Working Tree, Open Files, Open Revisions, Copy Commit ID to Clipboard, Copy Commit Message to Clipboard, Show Commit Details, Compare with Index (HEAD), Compare with Working Tree, Compare with Selected, Select for Compare, Cherry Pick Commit (via Terminal), Revert Commit (via Terminal), Rebase to Commit (via Terminal), Reset to Commit (via Terminal), Create Branch (via Terminal)..., Create Tag (via Terminal)..., and Refresh commands
          • Provides a context menu on each changed file with Open Changes, Open Changes with Working File, Open File, Open Revision, Open File in Remote, Open Revision in Remote, Apply Changes, and Show Commit File Details commands
    • Changed Files node — provides a list of all the files changed between the compared revisions (branches or commits)
      • Expands to a file-based view of all changed files
        • Provides a context menu on each changed file with Open Changes, Open Changes with Working File, Open File, Open Revision, Open File in Remote, Open Revision in Remote, Apply Changes, and Show Commit File Details commands
    • Provides a context menu with Open Directory Compare and Refresh commands

  • Provides toolbar commands to Search Commits, Keep Results, Refresh, Show Files in Automatic View or Show Files in List View or Show Files in Tree View, and Close

• Adds commands to open files, commits, branches, and the repository in the supported remote services, BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab, and Visual Studio Team Services or a user-defined remote services — only available if a Git upstream service is configured in the repository

  • Also supports remote services with custom domains, such as BitBucket, Bitbucket Server (previously called Stash), GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab
  • Open Branches in Remote command (gitlens.openBranchesInRemote) — opens the branches in the supported remote service
  • Open Branch in Remote command (gitlens.openBranchInRemote) — opens the current branch commits in the supported remote service
  • Open Commit in Remote command (gitlens.openCommitInRemote) — opens the commit revision of the active line in the supported remote service
  • Open File in Remote command (gitlens.openFileInRemote) — opens the active file/revision in the supported remote service
  • Open Repository in Remote command (gitlens.openRepoInRemote) — opens the repository in the supported remote service

• Adds a Show Current Branch History command (gitlens.showQuickRepoHistory) with a shortcut of shift+alt+h to show a paged branch history quick pick menu of the current branch for exploring its commit history

  

  • Provides entries to Show Commit Search and Open Branch in when available
  • Navigate back to the previous quick pick menu via alt+left arrow, if available
  • Navigate pages via alt+, and alt+. to go backward and forward respectively

• Adds a Show Branch History command (gitlens.showQuickBranchHistory) to show a paged branch history quick pick menu of the selected branch for exploring its commit history

  • Provides the same features as Show Current Branch History above

• Adds a Show File History command (gitlens.showQuickFileHistory) to show a paged file history quick pick menu of the active file for exploring its commit history

  

  • Provides additional entries to Show in Results, Show Branch History, and Open File in when available
  • Navigate back to the previous quick pick menu via alt+left arrow, if available
  • Navigate pages via alt+, and alt+. to go backward and forward respectively

• Adds a Show Commit Details command (gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails) to show a commit details quick pick menu of the most recent commit of the active file

  

  • Quickly see the set of files changed in the commit, complete with status indicators for adds, changes, renames, and deletes
  • Provides additional entries to Show in Results, Open Commit in when available, Open Files, Open Revisions, Open Directory Compare with Previous Revision, Open Directory Compare with Working Tree, Copy Commit ID to Clipboard, Copy Commit Message to Clipboard
  • Navigate back to the previous quick pick menu via alt+left arrow, if available
  • Use the alt+right arrow shortcut on an entry to execute it without closing the quick pick menu, if possible — commands that open windows outside of VS Code will still close the quick pick menu unless "gitlens.advanced.quickPick.closeOnFocusOut": false is set
  • Use the alt+right arrow shortcut on a file entry in the Changed Files section to preview the comparison of the current revision with the previous one

• Adds a Show Commit File Details command (gitlens.showQuickCommitFileDetails) with a shortcut of alt+c to show a file commit details quick pick menu of the most recent commit of the active file

  

  • Provides entries to Open Changes, Open Changes with Working File, Open File, Open Revision, Open File in when available, Open Revision in when available, Copy Commit ID to Clipboard, Copy Commit Message to Clipboard, Show Commit Details, Show File History, and Show Previous File History
  • Navigate back to the previous quick pick menu via alt+left arrow, if available
  • Use the alt+right arrow shortcut on an entry to execute it without closing the quick pick menu, if possible — commands that open windows outside of VS Code will still close the quick pick menu unless "gitlens.advanced.quickPick.closeOnFocusOut": false is set

• Adds a Show Repository Status command (gitlens.showQuickRepoStatus) with a shortcut of alt+s to show a repository status quick pick menu for visualizing the current repository status

  

  • Quickly see upstream status (if an Git upstream is configured) — complete with ahead and behind information
    • If you are ahead of the upstream, an entry will be shown with the number of commits ahead. Choosing it will show a limited branch history quick pick menu containing just the commits ahead of the upstream
    • If you are behind the upstream, an entry will be shown with the number of commits behind. Choosing it will show a limited branch history quick pick menu containing just the commits behind the upstream
  • Quickly see all working changes, both staged and unstaged, complete with status indicators for adds, changes, renames, and deletes
  • Provides entries to Show Stashed Changes, Open Changed Files, and Close Unchanged Files
  • Use the alt+right arrow shortcut on an entry to execute it without closing the quick pick menu, if possible — commands that open windows outside of VS Code will still close the quick pick menu unless "gitlens.advanced.quickPick.closeOnFocusOut": false is set
  • Use the alt+right arrow shortcut on a file entry in the Staged Files or Unstaged Files sections to preview the comparison of the working file with the previous revision

• Adds a Show Stashed Changes command (gitlens.showQuickStashList) to show a stashed changes quick pick menu for exploring your repository stash history

  

  • Provides additional entries to Stash Changes

  • Navigate back to the previous quick pick menu via alt+left arrow, if available

  • Choosing a stash entry shows a stash details quick pick menu which is very similar to the commit details quick pick menu above

    

    • Quickly see the set of files changed in the stash, complete with status indicators for adds, changes, renames, and deletes
    • Provides additional entries to Apply Stashed Changes (requires confirmation), Delete Stashed Changes (requires confirmation), Open Files, Open Revisions, Open Directory Compare with Previous Revision, Open Directory Compare with Working Tree, Copy Commit Message to Clipboard
    • Navigate back to the previous quick pick menu via alt+left arrow, if available
    • Use the alt+right arrow shortcut on an entry to execute it without closing the quick pick menu, if possible — commands that open windows outside of VS Code will still close the quick pick menu unless "gitlens.advanced.quickPick.closeOnFocusOut": false is set
    • Use the alt+right arrow shortcut on a file entry in the Changed Files section to preview the comparison of the current revision with the previous one

• Adds a Show Last Opened Quick Pick command (gitlens.showLastQuickPick) with a shortcut of alt+- to quickly get back to where you were when the last GitLens quick pick menu closed

Powerful Comparison Tools

• Effortlessly navigate between comparisons via the alt+, and alt+. shortcut keys to go back and forth through a file's revisions

• Provides easy access to the following comparison commands via the Command Palette as well as in context via the many provided quick pick menus

• Adds a Directory Compare Working Tree with... command (gitlens.diffDirectory) to open the configured Git difftool to compare the working tree with the selected branch or tag

• Adds a Compare File with Branch or Tag... command (gitlens.diffWithBranch) to compare the active file with the same file on the selected branch or tag

• Adds a Compare File with Next Revision command (gitlens.diffWithNext) with a shortcut of alt+. to compare the active file/diff with the next commit revision

• Adds a Compare File with Previous Revision command (gitlens.diffWithPrevious) with a shortcut of alt+, to compare the active file/diff with the previous commit revision

• Adds a Compare Line Revision with Previous command (gitlens.diffLineWithPrevious) with a shortcut of shift+alt+, to compare the active file/diff with the previous line commit revision

• Adds a Compare File with Revision... command (gitlens.diffWithRevision) to compare the active file with the selected revision of the same file

• Adds a Compare File with Working Revision command (gitlens.diffWithWorking) with a shortcut of shift+alt+w to compare the most recent commit revision of the active file/diff with the working tree

• Adds a Compare Line Revision with Working File command (gitlens.diffLineWithWorking) with a shortcut of alt+w to compare the commit revision of the active line with the working tree

And More

• Adds a Copy Commit ID to Clipboard command (gitlens.copyShaToClipboard) to copy the commit id (sha) of the active line to the clipboard or from the most recent commit to the current branch, if there is no active editor

• Adds a Copy Commit Message to Clipboard command (gitlens.copyMessageToClipboard) to copy the commit message of the active line to the clipboard or from the most recent commit to the current branch, if there is no active editor

• Adds a Open Working File" command (gitlens.openWorkingFile) to open the working file for the active file revision

• Adds a Open Revision... command (gitlens.openFileRevision) to open the selected revision for the active file

• Adds a Open Changes (with difftool) command (gitlens.externalDiff) to the source control group and source control resource context menus to open the changes of a file or set of files with the configured git difftool

• Adds a Open All Changes (with difftool) command (gitlens.externalDiffAll) to open all working changes with the configured git difftool

  • Also adds the command to the Source Control group context menu

• Adds a Open Changed Files command (gitlens.openChangedFiles) to open any files with working tree changes

• Adds a Close Unchanged Files command (gitlens.closeUnchangedFiles) to close any files without working tree changes

• Adds a Apply Stashed Changes command (gitlens.stashApply) to chose a stash entry to apply to the working tree from a quick pick menu

• Adds a Stash Changes command (gitlens.stashSave) to save any working tree changes to the stash — can optionally provide a stash message

  • Also adds the command to the Source Control items context menu to stash an individual or group of files, works with multi-select too!

Insiders

Add "gitlens.insiders": true to your settings to join the insiders channel and get early access to upcoming features. Be aware that because this provides early access expect there to be issues.

Themable Colors

GitLens defines a set of themable colors which can be provided by vscode themes or directly by the user using workbench.colorCustomization.

Name	Description
gitlens.gutterBackgroundColor	Specifies the background color of the gutter blame annotations
gitlens.gutterForegroundColor	Specifies the foreground color of the gutter blame annotations
gitlens.gutterUncommittedForegroundColor	Specifies the foreground color of an uncommitted line in the gutter blame annotations
gitlens.trailingLineBackgroundColor	Specifies the background color of the trailing blame annotation
gitlens.trailingLineForegroundColor	Specifies the foreground color of the trailing blame annotation
gitlens.lineHighlightBackgroundColor	Specifies the background color of the associated line highlights in blame annotations
gitlens.lineHighlightOverviewRulerColor	Specifies the overview ruler color of the associated line highlights in blame annotations

Extension Settings

GitLens is highly customizable and provides many configuration settings to allow the personalization of almost all features

General Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.defaultDateFormat	Specifies how absolute dates will be formatted by default See https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/ for valid formats
gitlens.defaultDateStyle	Specifies how dates will be displayed by default
gitlens.defaultGravatarsStyle	Specifies the style of the gravatar default (fallback) images identicon - a geometric pattern mm - (mystery-man) a simple, cartoon-style silhouetted outline of a person (does not vary by email hash) monsterid - a monster with different colors, faces, etc retro - 8-bit arcade-style pixelated faces robohash - a robot with different colors, faces, etc wavatar - faces with differing features and backgrounds
gitlens.insiders	Opts into the insiders channel -- provides access to upcoming features
gitlens.keymap	Specifies the keymap to use for GitLens shortcut keys standard - adds a standard set of shortcut keys chorded - adds a chorded set of shortcut keys that all start with Ctrl+Shift+G (⌥⌘G on macOS) none - no shortcut keys will be added
gitlens.outputLevel	Specifies how much (if any) output will be sent to the GitLens output channel

Blame Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.blame.ignoreWhitespace	Specifies whether or not to ignore whitespace when comparing revisions during blame operations

File Blame Annotation Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.blame.file.annotationType	Specifies the type of blame annotations that will be shown for the current file gutter - adds an annotation to the beginning of each line hover - shows annotations when hovering over each line
gitlens.blame.file.lineHighlight.enabled	Specifies whether or not to highlight lines associated with the current line
gitlens.blame.file.lineHighlight.locations	Specifies where the associated line highlights will be shown gutter - adds a gutter glyph line - adds a full-line highlight background color overviewRuler - adds a decoration to the overviewRuler (scroll bar)
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.format	Specifies the format of the gutter blame annotations Available tokens ${id} - commit id ${author} - commit author ${message} - commit message ${ago} - relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago) ${date} - formatted commit date (format specified by gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.dateFormat) ${authorAgo} - commit author, relative commit date See https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting for advanced formatting
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.dateFormat	Specifies how to format absolute dates (using the ${date} token) in gutter blame annotations See https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/ for valid formats
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.compact	Specifies whether or not to compact (deduplicate) matching adjacent gutter blame annotations
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.gravatars	Specifies whether or not to show gravatar images in the gutter blame annotations
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.heatmap.enabled	Specifies whether or not to provide a heatmap indicator in the gutter blame annotations
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.heatmap.location	Specifies where the heatmap indicators will be shown in the gutter blame annotations left - adds a heatmap indicator on the left edge of the gutter blame annotations right - adds a heatmap indicator on the right edge of the gutter blame annotations
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.hover.details	Specifies whether or not to provide a commit details hover annotation over the gutter blame annotations
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.hover.changes	Specifies whether or not to provide a changes (diff) hover annotation over the gutter blame annotations
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.hover.wholeLine	Specifies whether or not to trigger hover annotations over the whole line
gitlens.annotations.file.gutter.separateLines	Specifies whether or not gutter blame annotations will have line separators
gitlens.annotations.file.hover.details	Specifies whether or not to provide a commit details hover annotation over each line
gitlens.annotations.file.hover.changes	Specifies whether or not to provide a changes (diff) hover annotation over each line
gitlens.annotations.file.hover.heatmap.enabled	Specifies whether or not to provide heatmap indicators on the left edge of each line

Line Blame Annotation Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.blame.line.enabled	Specifies whether or not to provide a blame annotation for the current line, by default Use the Toggle Line Blame Annotations command (gitlens.toggleLineBlame) to toggle the annotations on and off for the current session
gitlens.blame.line.annotationType	Specifies the type of blame annotations that will be shown for the current line trailing - adds an annotation to the end of the current line hover - shows annotations when hovering over the current line
gitlens.annotations.line.trailing.format	Specifies the format of the trailing blame annotations Available tokens ${id} - commit id ${author} - commit author ${message} - commit message ${ago} - relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago) ${date} - formatted commit date (format specified by gitlens.annotations.line.trailing.dateFormat) ${authorAgo} - commit author, relative commit date See https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting for advanced formatting
gitlens.annotations.line.trailing.dateFormat	Specifies how to format absolute dates (using the ${date} token) in trailing blame annotations See https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/ for valid formats
gitlens.annotations.line.trailing.hover.details	Specifies whether or not to provide a commit details hover annotation over the trailing blame annotations
gitlens.annotations.line.trailing.hover.changes	Specifies whether or not to provide a changes (diff) hover annotation over the trailing blame annotations
gitlens.annotations.line.trailing.hover.wholeLine	Specifies whether or not to trigger hover annotations over the whole line
gitlens.annotations.line.hover.details	Specifies whether or not to provide a commit details hover annotation for the current line
gitlens.annotations.line.hover.changes	Specifies whether or not to provide a changes (diff) hover annotation for the current line

File Recent Changes Annotation Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.recentChanges.file.lineHighlight.locations	Specifies where the highlights of the recently changed lines will be shown gutter - adds a gutter glyph line - adds a full-line highlight background color overviewRuler - adds a decoration to the overviewRuler (scroll bar)
gitlens.annotations.file.recentChanges.hover.details	Specifies whether or not to provide a commit details hover annotation
gitlens.annotations.file.recentChanges.hover.changes	Specifies whether or not to provide a changes (diff) hover annotation

Code Lens Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.codeLens.enabled	Specifies whether or not to provide any Git code lens, by default Use the Toggle Git Code Lens command (gitlens.toggleCodeLens) to toggle the Git code lens on and off for the current session
gitlens.codeLens.recentChange.enabled	Specifies whether or not to show a recent change code lens showing the author and date of the most recent commit for the file or code block
gitlens.codeLens.recentChange.command	Specifies the command to be executed when the recent change code lens is clicked gitlens.toggleFileBlame - toggles file blame annotations gitlens.diffWithPrevious - compares the current committed file with the previous commit gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails - shows a commit details quick pick gitlens.showQuickCommitFileDetails - shows a commit file details quick pick gitlens.showQuickFileHistory - shows a file history quick pick gitlens.showQuickRepoHistory - shows a branch history quick pick
gitlens.codeLens.authors.enabled	Specifies whether or not to show an authors code lens showing number of authors of the file or code block and the most prominent author (if there is more than one)
gitlens.codeLens.authors.command	Specifies the command to be executed when the authors code lens is clicked gitlens.toggleFileBlame - toggles file blame annotations gitlens.diffWithPrevious - compares the current committed file with the previous commit gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails - shows a commit details quick pick gitlens.showQuickCommitFileDetails - shows a commit file details quick pick gitlens.showQuickFileHistory - shows a file history quick pick gitlens.showQuickRepoHistory - shows a branch history quick pick
gitlens.codeLens.scopes	Specifies where Git code lens will be shown in the document document - adds code lens at the top of the document containers - adds code lens at the start of container-like symbols (modules, classes, interfaces, etc) blocks - adds code lens at the start of block-like symbols (functions, methods, etc) lines
gitlens.codeLens.scopesByLanguage	Specifies where Git code lens will be shown in the document for the specified languages
gitlens.codeLens.symbolScopes	Specifies a set of document symbols where Git code lens will or will not be shown in the document Prefix with ! to not show Git code lens for the symbol Must be a member of SymbolKind

GitLens View Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.gitExplorer.enabled	Specifies whether or not to show the GitLens view"
gitlens.gitExplorer.view	Specifies the starting view (mode) of the GitLens view auto - shows the last selected view, defaults to repository history - shows the commit history of the active file repository - shows a repository explorer"
gitlens.gitExplorer.autoRefresh	Specifies whether or not to automatically refresh the GitLens view when the repository or the file system changes
gitlens.gitExplorer.files.layout	Specifies how the GitLens view will display files auto - automatically switches between displaying files as a tree or list based on the gitlens.gitExplorer.files.threshold setting and the number of files at each nesting level list - displays files as a list tree - displays files as a tree
gitlens.gitExplorer.files.compact	Specifies whether or not to compact (flatten) unnecessary file nesting in the GitLens view Only applies when displaying files as a tree or auto
gitlens.gitExplorer.files.threshold	Specifies when to switch between displaying files as a tree or list based on the number of files in a nesting level in the GitLens view Only applies when displaying files as auto
gitlens.gitExplorer.commitFormat	Specifies the format of committed changes in the GitLens view Available tokens ${id} - commit id ${author} - commit author ${message} - commit message ${ago} - relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago) ${date} - formatted commit date (format specified by gitlens.statusBar.dateFormat) ${authorAgo} - commit author, relative commit date See https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting for advanced formatting
gitlens.gitExplorer.commitFileFormat	Specifies the format of a committed file in the GitLens view Available tokens ${directory} - directory name ${file} - file name ${filePath} - formatted file name and path ${path} - full file path
gitlens.gitExplorer.gravatars	Specifies whether or not to show gravatar images instead of commit (or status) icons in the GitLens view
gitlens.gitExplorer.includeWorkingTree	Specifies whether or not to include working tree files inside the Repository Status node of the GitLens view
gitlens.gitExplorer.showTrackingBranch	Specifies whether or not to show the tracking branch when displaying local branches in the GitLens view"
gitlens.gitExplorer.stashFormat	Specifies the format of stashed changes in the GitLens view Available tokens ${id} - commit id ${author} - commit author ${message} - commit message ${ago} - relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago) ${date} - formatted commit date (format specified by gitlens.statusBar.dateFormat) ${authorAgo} - commit author, relative commit date See https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting for advanced formatting
gitlens.gitExplorer.stashFileFormat	Specifies the format of a stashed file in the GitLens view Available tokens ${directory} - directory name ${file} - file name ${filePath} - formatted file name and path ${path} - full file path
gitlens.gitExplorer.statusFileFormat	Specifies the format of the status of a working or committed file in the GitLens view Available tokens ${directory} - directory name ${file} - file name ${filePath} - formatted file name and path ${path} - full file path ${working} - optional indicator if the file is uncommitted

GitLens Results View Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.resultsExplorer.files.layout	Specifies how the GitLens Results view will display files auto - automatically switches between displaying files as a tree or list based on the gitlens.resultsExplorer.files.threshold setting and the number of files at each nesting level list - displays files as a list tree - displays files as a tree
gitlens.resultsExplorer.files.compact	Specifies whether or not to compact (flatten) unnecessary file nesting in the GitLens Results view Only applies when displaying files as a tree or auto
gitlens.resultsExplorer.files.threshold	Specifies when to switch between displaying files as a tree or list based on the number of files in a nesting level in the GitLens Results view Only applies when displaying files as auto
gitlens.resultsExplorer.commitFormat	Specifies the format of committed changes in the GitLens Results view Available tokens ${id} - commit id ${author} - commit author ${message} - commit message ${ago} - relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago) ${date} - formatted commit date (format specified by gitlens.statusBar.dateFormat) ${authorAgo} - commit author, relative commit date See https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting for advanced formatting
gitlens.resultsExplorer.commitFileFormat	Specifies the format of a committed file in the GitLens Results view Available tokens ${directory} - directory name ${file} - file name ${filePath} - formatted file name and path ${path} - full file path
gitlens.resultsExplorer.gravatars	Specifies whether or not to show gravatar images instead of commit (or status) icons in the GitLens Results view
gitlens.resultsExplorer.showTrackingBranch	Specifies whether or not to show the tracking branch when displaying local branches in the GitLens Results view"
gitlens.resultsExplorer.stashFormat	Specifies the format of stashed changes in the GitLens Results view Available tokens ${id} - commit id ${author} - commit author ${message} - commit message ${ago} - relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago) ${date} - formatted commit date (format specified by gitlens.statusBar.dateFormat) ${authorAgo} - commit author, relative commit date See https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting for advanced formatting
gitlens.resultsExplorer.stashFileFormat	Specifies the format of a stashed file in the GitLens Results view Available tokens ${directory} - directory name ${file} - file name ${filePath} - formatted file name and path ${path} - full file path
gitlens.resultsExplorer.statusFileFormat	Specifies the format of the status of a working or committed file in the GitLens Results view Available tokens ${directory} - directory name ${file} - file name ${filePath} - formatted file name and path ${path} - full file path ${working} - optional indicator if the file is uncommitted

Custom Remotes Settings

Name

Description

gitlens.remotes

Specifies user-defined remote (code-hosting) services or custom domains for built-in remote services Example: "gitlens.remotes": [{ "domain": "git.corporate-url.com", "type": "GitHub" }] Example: "gitlens.remotes": [{     "domain": "git.corporate-url.com",     "type": "Custom",     "name": "My Company",     "protocol": "https",     "urls": {         "repository": "https://git.corporate-url.com/${repo}",         "branches": "https://git.corporate-url.com/${repo}/branches",         "branch": "https://git.corporate-url.com/${repo}/commits/${branch}",         "commit": "https://git.corporate-url.com/${repo}/commit/${id}",         "file": "https://git.corporate-url.com/${repo}?path=${file}${line}",         "fileInBranch": "https://git.corporate-url.com/${repo}/blob/${branch}/${file}${line}",         "fileInCommit": "https://git.corporate-url.com/${repo}/blob/${id}/${file}${line}",         "fileLine": "#L${line}",         "fileRange": "#L${start}-L${end}"         }     }] Example: "gitlens.remotes": [{     "domain": "git.corporate-url.com",     "type": "Custom",     "name": "My Company",     "protocol": "https",     "urls": {         "repository": "https://git.corporate-url.com/projects/${repoBase}/repos/${repoPath}",         "branches": "https://git.corporate-url.com/projects/${repoBase}/repos/${repoPath}/branches",         "branch": "https://git.corporate-url.com/projects/${repoBase}/repos/${repoPath}/commits/${branch}",         "commit": "https://git.corporate-url.com/projects/${repoBase}/repos/${repoPath}/commit/${id}",         "file": "https://git.corporate-url.com/projects/${repoBase}/repos/${repoPath}?path=${file}${line}",         "fileInBranch": "https://git.corporate-url.com/projects/${repoBase}/repos/${repoPath}/blob/${branch}/${file}${line}",         "fileInCommit": "https://git.corporate-url.com/projects/${repoBase}/repos/${repoPath}/blob/${id}/${file}${line}",         "fileLine": "#L${line}",         "fileRange": "#L${start}-L${end}"         }     }]

Status Bar Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.statusBar.enabled	Specifies whether or not to provide blame information on the status bar
gitlens.statusBar.alignment	Specifies the blame alignment in the status bar left - align to the left, right - align to the right
gitlens.statusBar.command	Specifies the command to be executed when the blame status bar item is clicked gitlens.toggleFileBlame - toggles file blame annotations gitlens.diffWithPrevious - compares the current line commit with the previous gitlens.diffWithWorking - compares the current line commit with the working tree gitlens.toggleCodeLens - toggles Git code lens gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails - shows a commit details quick pick gitlens.showQuickCommitFileDetails - shows a commit file details quick pick gitlens.showQuickFileHistory - shows a file history quick pick gitlens.showQuickRepoHistory - shows a branch history quick pick
gitlens.statusBar.format	Specifies the format of the blame information on the status bar Available tokens ${id} - commit id ${author} - commit author ${message} - commit message ${ago} - relative commit date (e.g. 1 day ago) ${date} - formatted commit date (format specified by gitlens.statusBar.dateFormat) See https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/wiki/Advanced-Formatting for advanced formatting
gitlens.statusBar.dateFormat	Specifies the date format of absolute dates shown in the blame information on the status bar See https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/ for valid formats

Strings Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.strings.codeLens.unsavedChanges.recentChangeAndAuthors	Specifies the string to be shown in place of both the recent change and authors code lens when there are unsaved changes
gitlens.strings.codeLens.unsavedChanges.recentChangeOnly	Specifies the string to be shown in place of the recent change code lens when there are unsaved changes
gitlens.strings.codeLens.unsavedChanges.authorsOnly	Specifies the string to be shown in place of the authors code lens when there are unsaved changes

Advanced Settings

Name	Description
gitlens.advanced.blame.delayAfterEdit	Specifies the time (in milliseconds) to wait before re-blaming an unsaved document after an edit. Use 0 to specify an infinite wait
gitlens.advanced.blame.sizeThresholdAfterEdit	Specifies the maximum document size (in lines) allowed to be re-blamed after an edit while still unsaved. Use 0 to specify no maximum
gitlens.advanced.caching.enabled	Specifies whether git output will be cached -- changing the default is not recommended
gitlens.advanced.git	Specifies the git path to use
gitlens.advanced.maxListItems	Specifies the maximum number of items to show in a list. Use 0 to specify no maximum
gitlens.advanced.menus	Specifies which commands will be added to which menus
gitlens.advanced.messages	Specifies which messages should be suppressed
gitlens.advanced.quickPick.closeOnFocusOut	Specifies whether or not to close QuickPick menus when focus is lost
gitlens.advanced.repositorySearchDepth	Specifies how many folders deep to search for repositories
gitlens.advanced.telemetry.enabled	Specifies whether or not to enable GitLens telemetry (even if enabled still abides by the overall telemetry.enableTelemetry setting

Known Issues

• If the Copy to * clipboard commands don't work on Linux -- xclip needs to be installed. You can install it via sudo apt-get install xclip

Contributors

A big thanks to the people that have contributed to this project:

• Amanda Cameron (@AmandaCameron) — contributions)
• Helmut Januschka (@hjanuschka) — contributions)
• Chris Kaczor (@ckaczor) — contributions)
• Peng Lyu (@rebornix) — contributions)
• Aurelio Ogliari (@nobitagit) — contributions
• Johannes Rieken (@jrieken) — contributions)
• Zack Schuster (@zackschuster) — contributions
• SpaceEEC (@SpaceEEC) — contributions
• Alexey Vasyukov (@notmedia) — contributions)

Also special thanks to the people that have provided support, testing, brainstorming, etc:

• Brian Canzanella (@bcanzanella)
• Matt King (@KattMingMing)

And of course the awesome vscode team!