Source Studio
lazygit-style source control for VS Code. Keyboard-driven staging, branches, worktrees, stashes, a commit graph, interactive rebase, blame and undo — across every repository in your workspace, without leaving the editor.
If you've ever kept a terminal open just to run lazygit, this is that workflow inside VS Code: six focused panels, single-key actions, and diffs that open in the editor you're already looking at.
Highlights
- Multiple repositories, one panel. Every repo in the workspace is found automatically (including nested ones). Pick the active repo and every view follows it. The activity-bar badge shows the total number of changes.
- Stage like lazygit.
space toggles a file, a stages everything, checkboxes stage whole folders. Open any file and stage, unstage or discard individual lines and hunks straight from the diff editor.
- A real commit panel. Subject and description, 50/72 counter, amend,
--no-verify, sign-off, commit & push. Pre-filled from your commit template (commit.template, .gitmessage, or a PR template) and the ticket key in your branch name.
- Commit graph with history rewriting. Squash, fixup, reword, drop, reorder and edit commits with one key each. Cherry-pick, revert, reset, branch from any commit.
- Undo.
z walks the reflog to undo the last commit, rebase, reset, checkout or merge; Z redoes. A reflog browser is there for anything deeper.
- Branches, worktrees and stashes as first-class views with checkout, create, delete, rename, rebase-onto, merge-into, fast-forward, upstream, switch worktree, apply/pop/drop stash.
- Conflicts handled. When a rebase, merge, cherry-pick or stash-apply stops on conflicts, the Files view shows them and Continue/Abort appear in the toolbar.
- Blame per file (gutter annotations) or for the current line, with hover cards linking to the commit.
The panels
Press 1–6 from any Source Studio view to jump between them, ? to see the keymap.
| # |
View |
What it shows |
| 1 |
Repositories |
Every repo with its branch, ahead/behind and change count. Click to make it active. |
| 2 |
Files |
Conflicts, staged, unstaged and untracked files, nested by folder. Click a file for its diff, a folder for a multi-diff. |
| 3 |
Branches |
Local branches by recency (current pinned), remotes grouped by name. |
| 4 |
Worktrees |
Every worktree of the active repo; switch, create, remove, prune. |
| 5 |
Commits |
The graph for the checked-out branch (a for all branches). Hollow dots are unpushed. |
| 6 |
Stashes |
Click to see a stash's contents. |
Keymap
Keys work while a Source Studio view has focus and don't interfere with the editor.
Everywhere
| Key |
Action |
c |
Commit (opens the commit panel) |
P / p / f |
Push / Pull / Fetch |
z / Z |
Undo / Redo (reflog-based) |
? |
Keymap |
Files
| Key |
Action |
space |
Stage / unstage selection |
a |
Stage all |
d |
Discard |
s |
Stash (all / staged / with untracked) |
A |
Amend HEAD with staged changes |
R |
Refresh |
Branches
| Key |
Action |
space |
Checkout (remote branches get a tracking branch) |
n |
New branch from selected |
d |
Delete (offers force-delete; confirms remote deletes) |
R |
Rename |
r |
Rebase current branch onto selected |
M |
Merge selected into current |
u |
Set upstream |
Commits
| Key |
Action |
j / k, Enter |
Move, show diff |
space |
Checkout commit (detached) |
n |
New branch at commit |
c / t |
Cherry-pick / Revert |
g |
Reset to commit (soft / mixed / hard) |
s / f |
Squash / fixup into parent |
r / d / e |
Reword / Drop / Edit (pause rebase) |
J / K |
Move commit down / up |
y |
Copy SHA |
a |
Toggle all branches |
Worktrees — space switch, n new, d remove. Stashes — space apply, g pop, d drop, n new.
In a diff editor
| Key |
Action |
alt+s / alt+h |
Stage selected lines / hunk |
alt+u / alt+shift+h |
Unstage selected lines / hunk (in the HEAD ↔ Index diff) |
| right-click |
Discard selected lines / hunk |
In any editor — alt+b toggles file blame; right-click for line blame.
Commit panel
c opens a tab with a subject line, description, and toggles for amend, --no-verify and sign-off. ⌘/Ctrl+Enter commits, ⌘/Ctrl+Shift+Enter commits and pushes. Lines starting with # are stripped, so comment-style templates work as they do in a terminal. Drafts are kept per repository until you commit.
The description is pre-filled from, in order: git's commit.template, then the files in sourcestudio.commit.templateFiles (defaults cover .gitmessage and the common pull_request_template.md locations). The subject is seeded from the ticket key in the branch name, e.g. feature/PLA-123-thing → PLA-123: .
Settings
| Setting |
Default |
Purpose |
sourcestudio.gitPath |
git |
Path to the git executable |
sourcestudio.scanDepth |
3 |
How deep to look for repositories under each workspace folder |
sourcestudio.ignoredFolders |
node_modules, dist, … |
Folders skipped while scanning |
sourcestudio.commit.templateFiles |
.gitmessage, pull_request_template.md, … |
Commit-template files to try, relative to the repo root |
sourcestudio.commit.branchPrefixPattern |
(?:^\|/)([A-Z][A-Z0-9]+-\d+) |
Regex that pulls a ticket key from the branch name (empty to disable) |
sourcestudio.commit.branchPrefixFormat |
{match}: |
How the key is inserted into the subject |
Requirements
- VS Code 1.90 or newer
- git 2.35 or newer on your PATH (for
stash --staged and switch)
Source Studio runs git directly; it doesn't replace or disable VS Code's built-in Git support, and the two coexist.
Safety
Destructive actions — discard, drop, hard reset, force-delete, remote-branch delete — always ask first. History rewrites run with --autostash, so a dirty working tree is stashed and restored around them. Nearly everything can be reversed with z.
Feedback
Bugs and ideas: github.com/eventtemple/source_studio/issues.
Contributing
git clone https://github.com/eventtemple/source_studio
cd source_studio && npm install
npm run watch # rebuild on save
# F5 in VS Code → "Run Extension"
npm run typecheck # tsc --noEmit
npm run package # build a .vsix
The code is plain TypeScript bundled with esbuild: src/git/ wraps git and parses its porcelain output, src/views/ holds the six panels, src/commands/ the actions, and src/blame/ the annotations. See CHANGELOG.md for release notes.
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