Vscode Gitlens: v9.7.0 Release

Added

• Adds support for Live Share presence
  • Adds an avatar presence indicator and an invite button to start a Live Share session with the code author<br />
  • Adds presence status and an Invite to Live Share command to contributor nodes in the Repositories view
• Adds a new Views Side Bar Layout section to the interactive settings editor (via the GitLens: Open Settings command) with 3 layout presets
  • Default — shows all the views together on the GitLens side bar
  • Source Control — shows all the views together on the Source Control side bar
  • Contextual — shows Repositories on the Source Control side bar, File and Line History on the Explorer side bar, and others on the GitLens side bar
• Improves the accuracy and experience of the following:
  • Details hover
  • Changes (diff) hover
  • Open Changes with Previous Revision command
  • Open Line Changes with Previous Revision command — closes #719
  • Open Changes with Working File command
  • Open Line Changes with Working File command
  • Open Changes with Next Revision command
• Adds support to the Details and Changes (diff) hovers to differentiate between staged and unstaged changed
• Adds a Show All command to the Show More nodes in the views
• Adds Show More support (i.e. paging) to the File and Line History views
• Adds an improved experience when starting a new commit search or comparision
• Adds the renamed path to the description and tooltip of file nodes in the views
• Adds a gitlens.advanced.maxSearchItems setting to specify the maximum number of items to show in a search — closes #728
• Adds a gitlens.defaultDateSource setting to specify whether commit dates should use the authored or committed date — closes #537 thanks to PR #707 by Mathew King (@MathewKing)
• Adds a gitlens.advanced.similarityThreshold setting to specify the amount (percent) of similarity a deleted and added file pair must have to be considered a rename — closes #670 thanks to PR #714 by x13machine (@x13machine)
• Adds visual tracking to the table of contents of the interactive settings editor to make it easier to navigate and keep context
• Adds new documentation on how to use and customize GitLens' formatting settings: View Docs
• Adds an ${originalPath} token for use with file formatting which provides the full file path of the original file, if renamed
• Adds better logging to show current mode on startup and when changed — closes #725

Changes

• Changes path collapsing to also collapse root paths when using the compact file layout in the views
• Ensures file rename detection when getting the status of a repo or file

Removed

• Removes searching for commits by changed occurrences (-S flag) as it is too confusing and searching by changes (-G flag) better matches user expectations — closes #730

Fixed

• Fixes #729 - "Show more results" in search commit show less results
• Fixes #716 - Browsing history of a renamed file fails in forward direction
• Fixes #724 - GitService.getBranches very very very long
• Fixes #625 - Branches in Repositories view shows some commit comment texts as branches
• Fixes issues with keyboard navigation (alt+, and alt+.) in commit details of the file history quick pick menu
• Fixes issues with keyboard navigation (alt+, and alt+.) in commit details of the branch history quick pick menu
• Fixes issues when showing all results in various lists and views
• Fixes issue with id collisions between branches, remotes, and tags in the Repositories view
• Fixes the Line History view when there are uncommitted and/or unsaved changes
• Fixes various issues when trying to find the working file from a commit
• Fixes issues where the Changes (diff) hover wouldn't work properly with renamed files
• Fixes an intermittent issue where hovers fail to show