Minimalist Git

Interactive log graph, working tree & commit diffs, and integrated git commands.

Core Features

• Interactive Log Graph: View the commit history for all branches, including the working tree and stashes, in a clear graphical format.
• Powerful Filtering: The log can be filtered by author, message content (--grep), date (--before, --after), and file path. Filters are stackable for precise history navigation.
• Diff Viewing: Easily compare any two commits or view changes in the working tree.
• Integrated Git Operations: Perform common Git tasks like commit, stage, unstage, discard, fetch, pull, push, and manage stashes and tags without leaving the extension's view.
• Conflict Resolution: During a rebase, merge, or cherry-pick, the extension provides options to continue, skip, or abort the process.

Usage

Main View

The extension's main view is divided into three parts:

1. Toolbar: Quick access to common Git commands.
2. Commit List: The interactive log graph showing commit history.
3. Change List: Shows the current working tree, staged files, and file-level diffs for a selected commit.

Toolbar Commands

• Fetch: Fetches from the remote.
• Pull: Pulls changes, with a default strategy of --rebase --autostash.
• Push: Pushes committed changes. The overflow menu contains Push --force.
• Commit: Commits selected files from the Changes List. The overflow menu contains Amend Last Commit.
• Stage / Unstage: Stages or unstages selected files.
• Discard: Discards changes to selected files.
• Stash: Stashes current changes.

Log View (Context Menus)

Right-clicking on a commit, branch, or stash in the log view reveals a context menu with powerful actions.

On a Commit:

• Checkout commit
• Cherrypick commit
• Revert commit
• Merge commit into current branch
• Reset branch to this commit (hard)
• Start interactive rebase from commit
• Copy commit hash / Copy commit message
• Add tag / Delete tag

On a Stash:

• Apply stash
• Drop stash

During a Sequencer Operation (Rebase/Merge/Cherry-Pick):

• Continue rebase / Abort rebase
• Continue merge / Abort merge
• Continue Cherry-Pick / Abort Cherry-Pick

Changes List (Context Menus)

Right-clicking a file in the changes list provides file-specific actions:

• File History
• Open File
• Reveal In Explorer

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Visual Studio Marketplace

This extension is available on the Visual Studio Marketplace for Visual Studio Code.

Known Issues

• The graph only displays the most recent 500 commits.
• No localization support.
• spawn ENAMETOOLONG error when working with a very large number of files (committing, staging, etc.)

Release Notes

0.9.4

• Initial beta release.

0.9.6

• Fixed push --force command.
• Tweaked extension icon.
• Excluded screenshots and tests folders from package.

0.9.7

• Fixed push command!
• Fixed incorrect diff URIs when the working directory is a subdirectory of the repo directory.
• Added manual refresh command to the overflow menu

0.9.8

• Actually fixed push & push --force commands :D
• Fixed the manual refresh command!
• Fixed repo change detection when the working directory is a subdirectory of the repo directory.

0.9.9

• Added Seti icons in change list.
• Fixed oneshot-discarding of tracked + untracked files.
• Fixed repo change detection issue where the final change event in commands that execute multiple git operations was ignored.

0.9.10

• Added resizing commit messagebox.
• Added Enter-to-commit functionality.
• Fixed discarding of renamed files.

0.9.11

• Fixed log filtering.

0.9.12

• Updated scrollbar + resizer styling.
• Added DIFF to diff editor tab title.

0.9.13

• Fixed commit --amend command with multiple files.

0.10.0

• Removed simple-git dependency.

0.10.1

• Fixed an internal exception.
• Fixed add tag command not working.
• Removed unnecessary renders on repo change.

0.10.2

• Fixed a bug where the incorrect stash command was used.

0.10.3

• Fixed a bug where the status command didn't list individual files under 'untracked directories'.

0.10.4

• Fixed a bug where untagged commits still registered as having an 'undefined' tag!
• Fixed commit --amend command without any files.

0.10.5

• Fixed a bug where discard wasn't working.

0.10.6

• Fixed a bug where commit message tooltip wasn't HTML-encoded so it could break EVERYTHING!!

0.10.7

• Fixed a bug where the 'welcome' page check threw!

0.10.8

• Updated seti file icon font.

0.10.9

• Added init repository option in the welcome page.
• Fixed a bug where some error messages weren't properly surfaced to the user.

0.10.10

• Added filter by file in graph search.
• Added File History entry in explorer context menu.

0.10.11

• Fixed a bug where resolving diff URIs failed when renamed/deleted files are staged.

0.10.12

• Fixed a bug the File History didn't automatically trigger the filter

0.10.14

• Fixed a bug where file paths in the changes list could have quotes which would badly mess up the markup!

0.11.0

• Added Open File context menu command in Changes List.
• Added Reveal File In Explorer context menu command in Changes List.
• Added File History context menu command in Changes List.
• The empty file in the diff view is now readonly!

0.11.1

• Improved the commit behavior to commit staged files if no changed files were selected
• Fixed a bug related to diff, open-file and reveal-in-explorer functions when the repo is in a parent directory of the workspace directory
• Fixed a bug where the commit message was cleared when no files were selected or the commit command fails

0.11.2

• Fixed a bug where the commit message was cleared if there were no selected files to commit (and none were staged)

0.12.0

• Fixed a bug where the commit list would reset to selecting the Working Tree whenever the repo state changes.
• Improved performance of repo state change detection.

0.12.1

• Improved UX of search field (when clicking the clear button, the commit list will be updated automatically)

0.12.2

• Added Run garbage collector command (overflow menu).
• Added Publish branch command (overflow menu).
• Slightly improved UX of search field by formatting the tooltip and changing the placeholder text.
• Fixed a bug where the push command would fail silently if the remote had more recent commits than the local.
• Fixed a bug where the extension showed a blank screen after initializing a repository in the workspace directory.