Vscode Gitlens: v14.0.0 Release

Added

• Adds an all-new Welcome experience to quickly get started with GitLens and discover features — even if you are familiar with GitLens, definitely check it out!
• Adds a new streamlined Get Started with GitLens walkthrough
• Adds an all-new Home view for quick access to GitLens features and GitKraken Account for managing your account
• Adds a new reimagined views layout — see discussion #2721 for more details
  • Rearranges the GitLens views for greater focus and productivity, including the new GitLens Inspect and moved some of our views from Source Control into either GitLens or GitLens Inspect.
  • Adds a new GitLens Inspect activity bar icon focuses on providing contextual information and insights to what you're actively working on
  • Adds a Reset Views Layout command to reset all the GitLens views to the new default layout
• Adds an all-new GitKraken Workspaces ☁️ feature as a side bar view, supporting interaction with local and cloud GitKraken workspaces, lists of repositories tied to your account.
  • Create, view, and manage repositories on GitKraken cloud workspaces, which are available with a GitKraken account across the range of GitKraken products
  • Automatically or manually link repositories in GitKraken cloud workspaces to matching repositories on your machine
  • Quickly create a GitKraken cloud workspace from the repositories in your current window
  • Open a GitKraken cloud workspace as a local, persisted, VS Code workspace file (further improvements coming soon)
  • Open a cloud workspace or repository in a new window (or your current window)
  • See your currently open repositories in the Current Window section
  • Explore and interact with any repository in a GitKraken cloud workspace, some actions are currently limited to repositories which are open in your current window — ones highlighted in green
  • (Coming soon) Share your GitKraken cloud workspaces with your team or organization
• Adds new Commit Graph ✨ features and improvements
  • Makes the Panel layout the default for easy access to the Commit Graph with a dedicated details view
  • Adds two new options to the graph header context menu
  • Reset Columns to Default Layout - resets column widths, ordering, visibility, and graph column mode to default settings
  • Reset Columns to Compact Layout - resets column widths, ordering, visibility, and graph column mode to compact settings
  • Adds a Toggle Commit Graph command to quickly toggle the graph on and off (requires the Panel layout)
  • Adds a Toggle Maximized Commit Graph command to maximize and restore the graph for a quick full screen experience (requires the Panel layout)
  • Enables the Minimap by default, as its no longer experimental, to provide a quick overview of of commit activity above the graph
  • Adds ability to toggle between showing commits vs lines changed in the minimap (note: choosing lines changed requires more computation)
  • Adds a legend and quick toggles for the markers shown on the minimap
  • Defers the loading of the minimap to avoid impacting graph performance and adds a loading progress indicator
  • Adds a gitlens.graph.minimap.enabled setting to specify whether to show the minimap
  • Adds a gitlens.graph.minimap.dataType setting to specify whether to show commits or lines changed in the minimap
  • Adds a gitlens.graph.minimap.additionalTypes setting to specify additional markers to show on the minimap
  • Makes the Changes column visible by default (previously hidden)
  • Defers the loading of the Changes column to avoid impacting graph performance and adds a loading progress indicator to the column header
  • Adds a changed file count in addition to the changed lines visualization
  • Improves the rendering of the changed line visualization and adds extra width to the bar for outlier changes so that they stand out a bit more
  • Adds an Open Repo on Remote button to left of the repo name in the graph header
  • Improves contextual help on the search input as you type
  • Improves tooltips on Branch/Tag icons to be more uniform and descriptive
  • Adds new context menu options to the Commit Graph Settings (cog, above the scrollbar) to toggle which scroll marker to show
  • Improves alignment of scroll markers on the scrollbar, and adds a gap between the last column and the scrollbar
• Adds the ability to choose which AI provider, OpenAI or Anthropic, and AI model are used for GitLens' experimental AI features
  • Adds a Switch AI Model command to the command palette and from the Explain (AI) panel on the Commit Details view
  • Adds a gitlens.ai.experimental.provider setting to specify the AI provider to use (defaults to openai)
  • Adds a gitlens.ai.experimental.openai.model setting to specify the OpenAI model (defaults to gpt-3.5-turbo) — closes #2636 thanks to PR #2637 by Daniel Rodríguez (@sadasant)
  • Adds a gitlens.ai.experimental.anthropic.model setting to specify the Anthropic model (defaults to claude-v1)
• Adds expanded deep link support
  • Adds cloning, adding a remote, and fetching from the target remote when resolving a deep link
  • Adds deep linking to a repository with direct file path support
• Adds the automatic restoration of all GitLens webviews when you restart VS Code
• Adds ability to control encoding for custom remote configuration — closes #2336
• Improves performance and rendering of the Visual File History and optimizes it for usage in the side bars
  • Adds a Full history option to the Visual File History — closes #2690
  • Adds a loading progress indicator
• Adds Reveal in File Explorer command to repositories
• Adds Copy SHA command to stashes
• Adds new icons for virtual repositories

Changed

• Changes header on GitLens Settings to be consistent with the new Welcome experience
• Reduces the visual noise of currently inaccessible ✨ features in the side bars
• Performance: Improves rendering of large commits on the Commit Details view
• Performance: Defers possibly duplicate repo scans at startup and waits until repo discovery is complete before attempting to find other repos
• Security: Disables Git access in Restricted Mode (untrusted)
• Security: Avoids dynamic execution in string interpolation

Fixed

• Fixes #2738 - Element with id ... is already registered
• Fixes #2728 - Submodule commit graph will not open in the panel layout
• Fixes #2734 - 🐛 File History: Browse ... not working
• Fixes #2671 - Incorrect locale information provided GitLens
• Fixes #2689 - GitLens hangs on github.dev on Safari
• Fixes #2680 - Git path with spaces is not properly quoted in the command
• Fixes #2677 - Merging branch produces path error
• Fixes an issue with comparison commands on File/Line History views
• Fixes an issue with stale state on many webviews when shown after being hidden
• Fixes an issue with fetch/push/pull on the Commit Graph header
• Fixes an issue where Branch / Tag items on the Commit Graph sometimes wouldn't expand on hover
• Fixes an issue where some command were showing up on unsupported schemes
• Fixes an issue where the file/line history views could break because of malformed URIs