GitGlasses

Open-source git supercharger for VS Code, powered by a native analysis engine. MIT licensed, no account, no cloud — your tokens and your code never leave your machine.

Features

• Inline blame, status bar blame, rich hovers with autolinked issues
• Gutter annotations: whole-file blame and change-recency heatmap
• Git CodeLens above files and symbols
• Blame that understands unsaved edits (dirty buffers blame correctly)
• Commit Graph: virtualized canvas, ref chips, drag-free mutation actions (merge, rebase, cherry-pick, reset, revert) behind explicit confirmations
• Interactive Rebase Editor: drag-drop reorder, squash, reword, drop
• Sidebar suite: Commits, Branches (with PR chips), Remotes, Stashes, Tags, File & Line History, Contributors, Search & Compare, Worktrees
• Visual File History: bubble-chart timeline of a file's evolution
• Launchpad: your PRs across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, triaged by actionability; Start Work from Jira/Linear/GitHub issues
• Open Patches: share WIP/stashes/commits as portable patch envelopes (file, Gist, or Snippet), applied 3-way on any machine
• PR suggestions from your editor selection
• AI (bring your own key or fully offline): explain commits/WIP, generate commit messages, natural-language commit search — Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible, Gemini, Ollama, or VS Code language models
• MCP server (gitglasses-mcp) exposing repo intelligence to AI tools
• Crash-isolated native engine: fast on huge repos, and a crash never takes down VS Code

Requirements

git ≥ 2.34 on PATH. The native engine binary ships inside the extension for your platform.

Settings

• gitglasses.currentLine.enabled — inline blame on/off
• gitglasses.codeLens.enabled — CodeLens on/off
• gitglasses.engine.path — override the bundled engine binary
• gitglasses.engine.logLevel — engine logging to the GitGlasses output channel