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Supercharge Git inside VS Code and unlock untapped knowledge within each repository — 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

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2017-07-05 · latest 2025-05-29

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  1. Well it's free software and open source, right? https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/blob/main/LICENS... Eventually someone will fork it just to remove the ads
    comment by nextaccountic · 2025-05-29 · in Edamagit: Magit for VSCode
  2. …Extensions that I currently have installed: * https://github.com/alefragnani/vscode-bookmarks * https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens * https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-xml * https://github.com/redhat-developer/vscode-yaml…
    comment by mmh0000 · 2023-12-22 · in The Loneliness of the Mid-Level Vimmer
  3. …VSCode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mhutchie... or https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens#commit-graph- SourceTree: https://confluence.atlassian.com/sourcetreekb/viewing-log-hi...
    comment by brabel · 2023-10-08 · in Why Git Is Hard
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    GitLens adds “Premium Features” and enough reminders that you don't miss them
    story by SuperSandro2000 · 2022-03-01 · 1 comment
  5. I really wish tooling like this was more common: https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/tree/v11.2.1#curre... (screenshot) > Current Line Blame: Adds an unobtrusive, customizable, and themable, blame annotation at the end of the current…
    comment by aendruk · 2021-03-04 · in Git's list of banned C functions
  6. …to the video, using something like gitlens in VS Code would allow you to click from code to video. https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens#autolink-settings
    comment by tomatohs · 2020-11-04 · in Document your code just by hitting “record”
  7. …for Visual Studio Code: It shows you the current line annotated with `git blame` by default: https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/tree/master/#curre... I even like this in my personal projects: It shows me how good both my commit…
    comment by cstuder · 2020-07-08 · in Git commit accepts several message flags (-m) to allow multiline commits
  8. …than I do writing code. [0] https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/12/20/chrome-debugg... [1] https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens
    comment by Someone1234 · 2018-04-27 · in Keep VS Code from Becoming an IDE
  9. Would gitlens help? I love it. https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens
    comment by swozey · 2018-04-12 · in A Taxonomy of Technical Debt
  10. …snappy as vi or sublime. I feel more productive because of all the plugins. For e.g. the fantastic https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens Extending it is really easy using the language server protocol http://langserver.org/ . Our team…
    comment by zabil · 2018-03-06 · in Xray – An experimental next-generation Electron-based text editor
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    Git Lens – Git Blame Annotations and Code Lens for Visual Studio Code
    story by nkerkin · 2017-07-05 · 0 comments