Vscode Gitlens: v11.0.0 Release

Added

• Adds all-new views side bar views

  • Moves all GitLens views to the Source Control side bar by default. You can move them back to the GitLens side bar via the Set Views Layout (gitlens.setViewsLayout) command or individually via drag and drop
  • Commits view — visualize, explore, and manage Git commits

  - Adds an indicator icon (up arrow) to unpublished (unpushed) commits - Branches view — visualize, explore, and manage Git branches

  - Remotes view — visualize, explore, and manage Git remotes and remote branches

  - Stashes view — visualize, explore, and manage Git stashes

  - Tags view — visualize, explore, and manage Git tags

  - Contributors view — visualize, navigate, and explore contributors

  - Moves the current user to be first and adds a (you) suffix - Search & Compare view — search and explore commit histories by message, author, files, id, etc, or visualize comparisons between branches, tags, commits, and more

  - Replaces the Search Commits and Compare Commits views - Adds persistence (pinning) for both searches and comparisons - Adds ability to edit existing searches - Disables the Repositories view by default, as it has been superseded by many new views. You can re-enable it by setting "gitlens.views.repositories.enabled": true or via the GitLens Interactive Settings - Integrates line history into the File History view

  - Adds a new Toggle History Mode command to toggle between showing file or line history - Adds an indicator icon (up arrow) to unpublished (unpushed) commits - Adds support for showing history across all branches via the Toggle Filter menu command — closes #974 - Adds staged changes - Welcome view — quickly setup GitLens to meet your needs (for first time users only)

• Adds a user-friendly interactive rebase editor to easily configure an interactive rebase session

• Adds terminal links — ctrl+click on autolinks in the integrated terminal to quickly jump to more details for commits, branches, tags, and more

• Adds rich integration with GitHub

  • Adds GitHub avatar support!
  • Adds associated pull request to line annotations and hovers

  - Adds associated pull request to status bar blame

  - Adds associated pull requests to branches and commits in the GitLens views - Adds autolinks for GitHub issues and pull requests, including titles, status, and authors

• Adds a new and improved Gutter Heatmap file annotations, via the Toggle File Heatmap Annotations command (gitlens.toggleFileHeatmap)

• Displays the heatmap in the gutter for a cleaner look and avoids any code jumping
• Adds improved heatmap colorization for better clarity of old and new code

• Adds the hot/cold age threshold to the GitLens Interactive Settings

  • Adds a new and improved Gutter Changes file annotations, via the Toggle File Changes Annotations command (gitlens.toggleFileChanges) — closes #396

• Provides indicators of local changes, if any, or recent commit changes, and distinguishes between added, changed, and removed lines
• Similar to the built-in Git gutter changes for un-staged changes, but shows all local (un-pushed) changes

• Shows a changes hover with the full set of changes (diff hunk) and even with unsaved changes

  • Adds many refinements to the Git Command Palette (previously Git Commands), and adds new commands

• Adds many more options to existing commands
• Adds improved titles for better clarity, context, and flow
• Adds a new history (log) command to show the commit history of a branch or tag
  • Adds a Reveal in Side Bar button to the quick pick menu toolbar
  • Adds keyboard navigation
    • right arrow — reveals the selected branch in the Branches or Remotes view (or Repositories view, if enabled), if there is no text in the quick pick menu
    • alt+right arrow, ctrl+right arrow, cmd+right arrow (macOS) — reveals the selected branch in the Branches or Remotes view
• Adds a new show command to show the details of a commit
  • Adds a Reveal in Side Bar button to the quick pick menu toolbar
  • Adds keyboard navigation
    • right arrow — searches for the selected commit and shows the results in the Search Commits view, if there is no text in the quick pick menu
    • alt+right arrow — searches for the selected commit and shows the results in the Search Commits view
    • ctrl+right arrow, cmd+right arrow (macOS) — reveals the selected commit in the Commits view (or Repositories view, if enabled)
• Adds a new status command to show the current respository status
• Adds a new Delete Branch & Remote and Force Delete Branch & Remote options to the branch delete command — to more easily delete branches with tracking branches
• Adds ability pull (fetch) a specific branch(es) to the pull command — closes #873
• Adds a new Publish Branch option to the push command
• Adds ability to push a single branch to the push command
• Adds support for honoring the git.useForcePushWithLease setting on the push command

• Adds a new Soft Reset (--soft) option to the reset command

  • Adds improved autolinks support

• Adds a new alphanumeric flag to autolinks — closes #946

• Adds autolink support in plain text (as footnotes)

• Allows autolinks inside parentheses and square brackets

  • Adds improved co-author support

• Provides an updatable quick pick of co-authors

• Adds the Add Co-authors (gitlens.addAuthors) command to the Source Control context menu

• Adds an option to show or hide the Add Co-authors command on the Source Control context menu to the Menus & Toolbars section of the GitLens Interactive Settings

  • Adds many new commands

• Open File from Remote (gitlens.openFileFromRemote) command — opens the local file from a remote file url

• Set Views Layout (gitlens.setViewsLayout) command — quickly switch between showing GitLens views in GitLens sidebar (default) and the Source Control sidebar

• Adds a Switch to Another Branch (gitlens.views.switchToAnotherBranch) command — to quickly switch the current branch

• Copy Remote Commit Url command (gitlens.copyRemoteCommitUrl) — copies the url of the current line commit on the remote provider

• Copy Remote Branch Url command (gitlens.copyRemoteBranchUrl) — copies the url of a branch on the remote provider

• Copy Remote Branches Url command (gitlens.copyRemoteBranchesUrl) — copies the url of the branches on the remote provider

• Open Comparison on Remote command (gitlens.openComparisonOnRemote) — opens the comparison on the remote provider

• Copy Remote Comparison Url command (gitlens.copyRemoteComparisonUrl) — copies the url of the comparison on the remote provider

• Open Pull Request command (gitlens.openPullRequestOnRemote) — opens the pull request on the remote provider

• Copy Pull Request Url command (gitlens.copyRemotePullRequestUrl) — copies the url of the pull request on the remote provider

• Copy Remote Repository Url command (gitlens.copyRemoteRepositoryUrl) — copies the url of the repository on the remote provider

  • Adds alternative alt+click commands for many of the Open * on Remote commands to alternatively copy the url to the clipboard
  • Adds an Open Commit on Remote command (with an Copy Remote Commit Url alt+click command) to commits in the VS Code Timeline view
  • Adds ability to set the default remote from any of the Open * on Remote command quick pick menus
  • Adds Git Code Lens to markdown headers
  • Adds new Git Code Lens options to disable the click actions on both the recent change and authors code lens — closes #989 thanks to PR #1009 by Abdulrahman (Abdu) Assabri (@abdusabri)
  • Adds per-language customizations to the gitlens.codeLens.scopes and gitlens.codeLens.symbolScopes settings — closes #977
  • Adds new click behavior for changed files in GitLens views to open a diff of all contained changes
  • Adds a new gitlens.hovers.avatarSize setting to customize the size of avatars shown in hovers

• Increases the default avatar size in hovers from 16px to 32px

  • Adds Hide Avatars or Show Avatars menu command to many GitLens views to hide or show avatars
  • Adds Hide Date Markers or Show Date Markers menu command to many GitLens views to hide or show relative date markers
  • Adds real-time preview when editing format strings in the GitLens Interactive Settings
  • Adds a new commit format tokens: ${authorNotYou}, ${agoOrDateShort}, ${authorAgoOrDateShort}, ${committerAgoOrDateShort}
  • Adds synchronized storage to avoid opening the Welcome page or showing a What's New notification on new machines when Settings Sync is enabled
  • Adds new Welcome and Open Settings menu commands to the GitLens gear menu in the Extensions sidebar — closes #952 & #953 thanks to PR #992 by Zeeshan Adnan (@zeeshanadnan)
  • Adds a new HEAD choice to the compare quick pick menu — closes #927
  • Adds support for .gitattributes text conversion filters — closes #866 thanks to PR #1052 by Martin Campbell (@martin-css)
  • Adds week(s) ago to relative time formatting
  • Adds a limit of 5000 commits to the Load All command in GitLens views
  • Adds a Clear command to the branch comparison tool in GitLens views
  • Adds compact mode for showing branch and tag tips on commits in GitLens views
  • Adds Copy SHA command to branches and tags in GitLens views

Changed

• Changes all comparisons results to be split into ahead and behind groups
• Changes Git Code Lens to be less intrusive when they are unavailable because of unsaved changes, via new defaults for the gitlens.strings.codeLens.unsavedChanges.* settings
• Refines all of the GitLens contributed menus to reduce noise and improve usability
• Changes to use VS Code's built-in icons (codicons) where possible — closes #985
• Changes to use codicons in hovers — closes #954
• Changes revision navigation icons to better match VS Code
• Changes all the Open * on Remote command icons to use the globe codicon
• Changes the comparison icons in GitLens views
• Changes the default blame annotation format to show 50 characters (instead of 40)
• Changes the relative date markers in GitLens views to be less prominent, and avoids showing the marker if it is first item
• Changes commit quick pick menu commands to align with commit context menu commands
• Changes the Open Settings and Welcome pages to open beside the active editor
• Changes the default sorting of branches so that main, master, and develop are first
• Changes the sorting of branches in the Git Commands Palette and other quick pick menus to be by date descending
• Changes the default sorting of remotes so that origin is first — closes #924 — thanks to PR #925 by Connor Peet (@connor4312)
• Changes the default sorting of tags to be by date descending
• Changes to limit scm/resourceGroup/context and scm/resourceState/context menu contributions
• Changes to support latest emojis in commit messages
• Improves VS Code startup performance by using the new onStartupFinished activation event
• Improves the performance of the Details hover
• Improves the performance of loading Contributors in the Contributors and Repositories views
• Improves the performance and experience when opening multiple files or revisions
• Improves the performance of the file system watching for repository changes (ignores .gitignored files)
• Moves the avatars in the Gutter Blame file annotations to be part of the annotations rather than in the gutter itself
• Renames Show More to Load more in GitLens views
• Renames Show Commit Details command to Show Commit
• Replaces Push to Commit (via Terminal) command with a new Push to Commit command
• Deprecates the Line History view, as it has been integrated into the File History view. While it will likely be removed in a future version, you can be re-enable it by setting "gitlens.views.lineHistory.enabled": true
• Deprecates the gitlens.codeLens.scopesByLanguage setting, use per-language gitlens.codeLens.scopesandgitlens.codeLens.symbolScopes settings instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.gitCommands.search.showResultsInView setting as it has been renamed to gitlens.gitCommands.search.showResultsInSideBar
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.commitFileFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.files.label instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.commitFileDescriptionFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.files.description instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.commitFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.commits.label instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.commitDescriptionFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.commits.description instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.stashFileFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.files.label instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.stashFileDescriptionFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.files.description instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.stashFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.stashes.label instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.stashDescriptionFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.stashes.description instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.statusFileFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.files.label instead
• Deprecates the gitlens.views.statusFileDescriptionFormat setting, use gitlens.views.formats.files.description instead
• Removes the sponsor heart icon from all GitLens views and simplifies the sponsor command
• Removes the useless Collapse All command from the File History view
• Removes the Keep Open toggle button from the Git Command Palette toolbar — the behavior is now automatically determined (unless overridden by the gitlens.gitCommands.closeOnFocusOut setting)
• Removes ${changes} token from commit description format by default
• Removes the associated commit sha from tag descriptions
• Removes many view visibility (enablement) settings as the control over a views visibility is more easily controlled directly by unchecking the view itself
• Removes the gitlens.views.repositories.showTrackingBranch setting as it is now always enabled

Fixed

• Fixes diffs of renamed files in certain cases
• Fixes #1139 - Git crash with v2.29.x
• Fixes typo forcably -> forcibly — thanks to PR #1138 by Andrea Cigana (@ciganandrea)
• Fixes missing empty (non-merge) commits
• Fixes issue with a blank branch name before any commits exist
• Fixes issues with missing repository or file system change events while vs code is unfocused
• Fixes remote url issues with spaces in the filename
• Fixes issue where <remote>/HEAD was showing up as a branch
• Fixes issues with revision navigation commands and diff editors
• Fixes show command with single file commits
• Fixes delete of remote branches on the Git Command Palette's branch command
• Fixes Git Command Palette's back tracking in certain cases
• Fixes issue to ensure that dropping a stash drops the correct item even if the view is out of date
• Fixes the Push Stash & Keep Staged option on the Git Command Palette's stash command
• Fixes issues with stashes and untracked files
• Fixes the wrong icon on the Unstage All Changes command
• Fixes issue where a selection change wouldn't always trigger a Line History refresh
• Fixes issues where GitLens' files would not re-open properly on reload
• Fixes Incomplete string escaping or encoding code scan warning — https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/security/code-scanning/1
• Fixes Inefficient regular expression code scan warning — https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/security/code-scanning/2
• Fixes #1072 - Add whitespace to tree item tooltip — thanks to PR #1073 by Alex (@deadmeu)
• Fixes Git Command Palette's stash drop command not working
• Fixes #1033 - Adopt VS Code's 'asWebviewUri' API
• Fixes issues with Open Changes with Previous Revision and diff editors
• Fixes issues with Open Changes with Working File and diff editors
• Fixes issue with the previous line diff line number being off
• Fixes issues with bogus merge commits that can show up in file histories; now using --first-parent for git log with --follow
• Fixes issues with paging git log with merge commits
• Fixes directory compare from waiting for external tool to exit
• Fixes #996 - Rename branch should show existing name highlighted
• Fixes issues with folders that end with a space
• Fixes typo in contributing search tag link — thanks to PR #981 by Guillem (@guillemglez)
• Fixes #970 - Stashes doesn't honor files layout
• Fixes Load more in GitLens views with range notation comparisons
• Fixes ignoreCase flag on autolinks
• Fixes #951 - Starring branch updates repository view properly — thanks to PR #963 by Zeeshan Adnan (@zeeshanadnan)
• Fixes issues with switch branch command error handling
• Fixes issues with stash command error handling
• Fixes file history issues with copied and deleted files
• Fixes intermittent issues with Reveal Commit in Repopsitories View
• Fixes #910 - "Show Commit in Search Commits View" doesn't work
• Fixes issues with hovers not showing on first editor
• Fixes autolinking with remote providers
• Fixes issues with some settings metadata