GitLens supercharges Git inside VS Code and unlocks the untapped knowledge within each repository. It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and CodeLens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via rich visualizations and powerful comparison commands, and so much more.

Welcome to GitLens 12

See What's New in GitLens 12 or read the release notes Get Started Walkthrough or learn about GitLens+ features

Quick Setup

GitLens is powerful, feature rich, and highly customizable to meet your needs. Do you find CodeLens intrusive or the current line blame annotation distracting — no problem, quickly turn them off or change how they behave using the options below.

For more options, use the interactive GitLens settings editor

Adds an unobtrusive blame annotation at the end of the current line

Adds authorship CodeLens to the top of files and on code blocks

Adds a Git blame annotation about the current line to the status bar

Views

GitLens views can be configured to be shown in different side bar layouts to best match your workflow

Source Control Layout (default)

Shows all the views together on the Source Control side bar

GitLens Layout

Shows all the views together on the GitLens side bar

You can also simply drag & drop individual views to create custom layouts

Dates & Times

Use system for the system locale, or a locale language tag, e.g. en-US
Example date:
Example date:
Example short date:
Example date:
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