Vscode Gitlens: v17.7.0 Release

Added

• Adds new Commit Composer features and improvements
  • Adds ability to recompose existing branches via the Recompose Commits (Preview) command in the context menu of branches and from the Command Palette (#4598, #4599)
  • Adds drag and drop support to reorder auto-composed commits in the commit list (#4433)
  • Adds support for untracked files (#4636)
  • Adds support for composing without a base commit (#4637)
  • Greatly improves performance by virtualizing file diffs (#4675)
  • Improves some cases where staging or working tree changes are incorrectly detected (#4667)
  • Adds a link to the custom instructions setting in the Commit Composer view
• Adds ability to explain unpushed changes via the Explain Unpushed Changes command in the context menu of branches in the Commit Graph and views (#4443)
• Adds improved experience to the Commit Graph
  • Improves rendering, scrolling, and selection performance and stability
  • Adds "pill-style" stats to the "Work in Progress" (WIP) row in the Commit Graph
  • Adds new keyboard navigation support: <kbd>Home</kbd>/<kbd>End</kbd> to navigate to the first/last row, <kbd>Page Up</kbd>/<kbd>Page Down</kbd> to navigate by page
  • Adds ability to show file or folder histories on the Commit Graph (#4725)
  • Adds Open File History in Commit Graph command to files in views
  • Adds Open Folder History in Commit Graph command to folders in the Explorer view
  • Adds new Solo Branch and Solo Tag commands to quickly filter the Commit Graph view to a specific branch or tag (#4739)
  • Adds Solo Branch in Commit Graph and Solo Tag in Commit Graph commands to the context menu of branches and tags in views if there are uncommitted changes
  • Changes to select the "Work in progress" (WIP) row in the Commit Graph by default if there are uncommitted changes (#4716)
  • Adds gitlens.graph.initialRowSelection setting to specify whether to select the "Work in progress" (WIP) row instead of HEAD
• Adds improved search experience on the Commit Graph, Search & Compare view, and in the Search Commits command
  • Adds support for reference or range commit searches (#4723)
  • Adds ref: search operator to filter commits by specific references (branches, tags, SHAs) or commit ranges
  • Adds natural language support to allow for more powerful queries
    • e.g. "show me all commits on feature-branch that aren't on main
    • e.g. "show me all commits after tag v17.6.0"
  • Adds ability to filter/search to branch & tag tips (#4726)
  • Adds is:tip search operator to filter to only commits directly pointed to by a branch or tag
  • Adds a navigable search history to the search box on the Commit Graph (#4724)
  • Allows navigation with arrow keys and deletion of history items
  • Adds a No Results message to the Commit Graph when there are no search results
• Adds new experience improvements to the Commit Details and Graph Details views
  • Adds "pill-style" file changed stats
  • Adds rich context menus to files, similar to the tree views
  • Adds the ability to see which branches and tags contain a specific commit(#4737)
  • Adds the ability to see which files are matched by a search on the Commit Graph
  • Adds a filter toggle button to switch between showing all files, highlighting matched files, and only showing matched files
• Adds a new Safe Hard Reset (--keep) option to Git reset command (#4720)
• Adds sort context menu toggles for Branches, Contributors, Remotes, Repositories, Tags, and Worktrees views (#4738)
  • Adds a new gitlens.sortWorktreesBy setting to specify the sort order for worktrees
• Adds support for Claude 4.5 Haiku model and hides older Claude models for GitLens' AI features
• Adds "Copy Changes (Patch)" to uncommitted files in the Worktrees, Commit Details, and Graph Details views
• Adds "inline" multiline commit message support to the Commit Graph
• Adds Next Change and Previous Change navigation commands to the editor toolbar when the Changes Annotations are active
• Adds keybinding support for copy actions (<kbd>Ctrl+C</kbd> / <kbd>Cmd+C</kbd>) in the Launchpad view
• Adds Quick Show Commit (gitlens.showQuickCommitDetails) command to the Command Palette

Changed

• Improves performance and reduces overhead in many areas
  • Faster/less intensive detection of uncommitted changes
  • Faster/less intensive conflict file detection
  • Greatly improves performance providing the status of worktrees
  • Reduces view refresh frequency related to fetch times to avoid extra processing and re-rendering
• Changes to use the "merge target" when we are creating pull requests (#4709, #4734)
• Changes the minimum VS Code version to 1.95.0 (#4690, #4691)
• Improves MCP checks and adds offline detection (#4687)
• Improves reference/revision range entry in reference pickers
• Consolidates (and fixes missing) progress indicators and spinners on the Commit Graph

Fixed

• Fixes an issue where the Home view would not update when switching repositories (#4717)
• Fixes intermittent stuck loading state on the Commit Graph (#4669)
• Fixes underlines showing on home branch actions (#4703)
• Fixes Inspect view not showing uncommitted files on the Inspect tab (#4714)
• Fixes Commit Graph losing row selection when graph updates (#4544)
• Fixes "Element with id already registered" error on comparison w/ multiple repos (#4521)
• Fixes Commit Composer diffs misaligned with large editor font sizes (#4573)
• Fixes MCP installation flow from proceeding in cases where it shouldn't (#4672, #4673, #4674)
• Fixes missing layout commands in view menus
• Fixes stage/unstage failures with large file set by adding batching
• Fixes copying untracked files as a patch
• Fixes an issue where the "hidden references" control on the Commit Graph could still receive focus
• Fixes issues with inline versus block Markdown rendering
• Fixes inconsistencies in the Work-in-Progress (WIP) statistics
• Fixes an issue where the "visible day range" on the Commit Graph minimap were not updating
• Fixes showing overview mode when selecting a Work-in-Progress (WIP) row
• Fixes path issues in untracked files and tree file parsing
• Fixes action color on the merge/rebase status component
• Fixes the copy shortcut key on grouped views
• Fixes issue to ensure the immediate firing of repository close events to avoid potential deadlock issues