

a Branches view to visualize, explore, and manage Git branches.a Line History view to visualize, navigate, and explore the revision history of the selected lines of the current file.a File History view to visualize, navigate, and explore the revision history of the current file or just the selected lines of the current file.a Repositories view to visualize, explore, and manage Git repositories.a Commits view to visualize, explore, and manage Git commits.a Commit Details view to provide rich details for commits and stashes.heatmap - shows how recently lines were changed, relative to all the other changes in the file and to now (hot vs.changes - highlights any local (unpublished) changes or lines changed by the most recent commit.blame - shows the commit and author who last modified each line of a file.on-demand file annotations in the editor, including.a status bar blame annotation showing the commit and author who last modified the current line.authorship CodeLens showing the most recent commit and number of authors at the top of files and/or on code blocks.an unobtrusive current line blame annotation at the end of the line showing the commit and author who last modified the line, with more detailed blame information accessible on hover.effortless revision navigation (backwards and forwards) through the history of a file.Here are just some of the features that GitLens provides, For advanced customizations, refer to the GitLens docs and edit your user settings. Do you find CodeLens intrusive or the current line blame annotation distracting - no problem, quickly turn them off or change how they behave via the interactive GitLens Settings editor. GitLens is powerful, feature rich, and highly customizable to meet your needs. Effortlessly explore the history and evolution of a codebase. Jump back through history to gain further insights as to how and why the code evolved. Quickly glimpse into whom, why, and when a line or code block was changed. GitLens simply helps you better understand code. GitLens is an open-source extension for Visual Studio Code. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and CodeLens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via rich visualizations and powerful comparison commands, and so much more. GitLens supercharges Git inside VS Code and unlocks untapped knowledge within each repository.
