GitLens Reviews & Product Details

• Deep Git Integration: GitLens provides advanced Git capabilities directly within Visual Studio Code, including in-editor blame annotations, rich hovers, and CodeLens features. This integration makes it possible to see who last modified a line or block of code, when it was changed, and the commit message associated with each change.

• Commit and File History Visualization: The extension offers interactive visualizations such as commit graphs and timeline views, making it easier to trace the evolution of files and repositories. Navigating through commit history and comparing file changes is straightforward, supporting both granular code review and broader project analysis.

• Contextual Annotations: GitLens overlays contextual information directly in the code editor, such as inline blame and status bar details, giving immediate insights into authorship and recent changes without leaving the editing environment.

• AI-Powered Features (Preview): Recent updates have introduced AI-assisted workflows, including automated commit message generation, pull request description drafting, and changelog creation. These features are designed to reduce manual overhead for repetitive Git tasks.

• Collaboration Tools: GitLens supports team workflows with features for code review, merge conflict resolution, and integration with remote repositories. The Home View acts as a workflow hub, consolidating issues, pull requests, and code tasks in a single panel to minimize context switching.

• Branch and Stash Management: Visual tools for branch graphing and stash management simplify complex version control scenarios, making it easier to handle multiple workstreams and experimental changes.

• Customizability: The extension is highly configurable, allowing adaptation to personal or team preferences for annotations, workflows, and UI elements.

• Open Source and Widely Adopted: GitLens is open source and has a large user base, with over 18 million installs and 120 million downloads, indicating a mature and well-supported tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

On very large repositories or with extensive annotation settings enabled, I have noticed occasional slowdowns or increased memory usage in Visual Studio Code, particularly when rendering complex commit graphs or loading extensive file histories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We can compare the different branches or commits of the code from GitHub and can see the history,blame,changes and author of that changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the option will not be visible to check and while comparing also I will feel little bit confusion but if you are developer mostly you can able to figure it out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Whenever I click on a line of code, GitLens provides details about the author and the date it was written. Additionally, it offers insightful annotations and code history, making it easier to understand the evolution of the codebase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recently, it encountered some bugs, such as writing the author and commit date to every line of code. I had to reinstall the extension to resolve the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

According to my opinion gitlens is very useful when i want to know who written this code and we get all history regarding that code and we can also get pull request on github.

GitLens excels at providing detailed line-by-line blame annotations that unlock your Git history. It also goes above and above; if you hover over these annotations, a detailed view with interactive links opens, making it easy to interact with pull requests, issues, and Git references. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some time i face some minor bug while integrating gitlens and It does not have autocomplete feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gitlens is amazingly simple to use. The visualizations for the commit tree are great.

Inline hover feature for getting the commit details really help a lot when debugging. File blame , heatmaps and worktree features are prefect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

some minor bugs in extenstions and no integrations for Jetbrains IDE are drawbacks.But it is perfect for vscode users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The feature that delivers the most impact is the in-line blame and when we hover over the blame, it shows more details about that commit.

In addition to this we can visualize file blame, file history and evolution over time, commit history, commit graphs, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using GitLens for over three years, and I cannot complain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The function I use the most is to know who and when any of the lines of code in VSCode were modified. It is very easy to install, hardly consumes any resources, and is very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of its important features, the Commit Graph, is paid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it makes collaboration and version control easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

not much to dislike. i would prefer if there was something that showed you the actual commands as you ran it, so you can learn while you used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Git lens is the best tool to know who is the author of the code which you are looking at and the commit message of that code. I have used it in many places, we can install the extension in VScode and after its installation when we click on any piece of code it will show the name of the person, and the time when it was written. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, I haven't seen any demerits of it yet but it adds valuable information, to make it better they can show more information about the person who has written the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It will allow us to see the latest changes in the branch.

We can compare the latest changes with last code.

Direct options given once you start using git lens like - merge code , stash code , add code , commit code.

It helps to resolve the merge conflict. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes we are not able to stop the command by using ctr+c or any other shortcut.

There is no feature to clear the cache of last branch.

It does not have autocomplete feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.