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GitLens is the most popular Git extension for Visual Studio Code. It supercharges the Git capabilities built into your IDE. GitLens unlocks the untapped knowledge within each repository to help visualize code authorship by leveraging CodeLens and Git blame to expose your Git history at every line of code. Seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and unleash the full power of Git without breaking your development flow. While GitLens is powerful and feature-rich, it is also highly customizable to meet your specific needs. Find code lens intrusive or the current line blame annotation distracting? No problem, it is quick and easy to turn them off or change how they behave.

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GitLens is the most popular Git extension for Visual Studio Code. It supercharges the Git capabilities built into your IDE. GitLens unlocks the untapped knowledge within each repository to help visualize code authorship by leveraging CodeLens and Git blame to expose your Git history at every line of code. Seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands, and unleash the full power of Git without breaking your development flow. While GitLens is powerful and feature-rich, it is also highly customizable to meet your specific needs — find code lens intrusive or the current line blame annotation distracting — no problem, it is quick and easy to turn them off or change how they behave.

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GitLens Demo - Unobtrusive Blame Annotations

At the end of each line of code, you’ll find an unobtrusive current line blame annotation showing the commit and author who last modified the line. Check out the status bar blame to see similar information.

GitLens Demo - View Git Authorship CodeLens

GitLens leverages CodeLens to expose the most recent commit and number of authors at the top of files and on code blocks. Click the links that CodeLens exposes to show a commit file details quick pick menu with commands for comparing, navigating and exploring commits, and more.

GitLens Demo - Effortless Revision Navigation

Quickly navigate backwards and forwards through the history of a file or even a single line to compare changes over time. You can also jump to a specific commit, branch, or tag to see how the code changed since then.

GitLens Demo - On-Demand File Annotations

See customizable file annotations in the editor’s status bar and in the gutter, the space beside the line number. Choose between: Blame – showing the commit and author for each line. Changes – highlighting any local, unpublished, changes or lines changed by the most recent commit. Heatmap – ...

GitLens Demo - Interactive Rebase Editor

A user-friendly editor to easily configure an interactive rebase session. Simply drag & drop to reorder commits and select which ones you want to edit, squash, or drop.

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Hemanth C.

Information Security Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/4/2025

"Excellent git management extension in VSCode for developers"

5/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

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.

What do you dislike about GitLens?

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.

Hussain R.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/11/2024

"Comprehensive Review of GitLens: A Powerful Git Extension"

4.5/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

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.

What do you dislike about GitLens?

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.

Vivek Kumar S.

Associate Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/17/2024

"GitLens Unveiled: Enhancing Visual Studio Code with Intuitive Commit Insights and Navigation"

5/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

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.

What do you dislike about GitLens?

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.

Karmavir J.

Co-Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/28/2023

"Best VSCode Git Integration on the marketplace"

5/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

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.

What do you dislike about GitLens?

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.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/21/2022

"Impossible to function without Gitlens"

4.5/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

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.

What do you dislike about GitLens?

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

Laura C.

Solutions assistant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/28/2023

"Perfect for working in a team"

4/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

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.

What do you dislike about GitLens?

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

Devin S.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/19/2023

"Great tool for fast 'git'-ing."

4.5/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

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

What do you dislike about GitLens?

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.

Sudhanshu C.

Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/8/2022

"Git lens ( To view the author of code)"

5/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

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.

What do you dislike about GitLens?

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.

Recommendations to others considering GitLens:

The best tool to know the author of code with the time of commit with commit-message Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLens solving and how is that benefiting you?

In a version control system, multiple developers are included who are writing code for same product. So, to see which developer has written which line we can see it easily. It shows information in every line with the time when it was written, the name of the person and the commit message of that code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

sudhir p.

Senior Technology Analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/15/2022

"Git lens review"

5/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

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.

What do you dislike about GitLens?

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.

Neha K.

Senior Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/10/2022

"GitLens is a powerful feature and open source extension for visual studio code."

5/5

What do you like best about GitLens?

The most fantastic feature of GitLens is quickly glimpsed into whom, why, and when a line or code block was changed. In addition, it highlights changes so perfeclty that we can make our code changes live without any hesitation. The current and previous commit comparison feature is also unique! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLens?

I have not found any major drawback in GitLens so far! But I have observed it is a heavy extension that slows down the VS code editor. Of course, it can be improved with all more git features. But overall, it is a lovely extension that I use in VS Code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.