Watermelon GitHub Plugin for Visual Studio Code

Watermelon is your open-source Code Archeology Toolbox integration for Visual Studio Code to help developers understand code better. Watermelon makes you an expert on any file by selecting code and bringing all the information available.

Free Features

Watermelon has 3 main features that you can use:

• View Git Blame
• View Pull Requests
• Daily Summary

The main UI to use Watermelon is the context box you see when you hover over lines of code with our extension installed. This UI is complemented with the sidebar we have.

In the image below you can see how hovering over a line of code provides us the following data:

• The latest commit message for that line
• The amount of changes for the file that you're currently in, usually called churn

If you want to do a deeper research about the code context history, simply click one of the links in the context box.

View Commit History

Highlight a piece of code, and then click the View Commit History button. We will run Git Blame for you, and give you a table with the Git commit messages relevant to the piece of code you highlighted.

You may also highlight and right click on the code, you will find the 'View Commit History with Watermelon' command at the end.

As a final way to use, only with your keyboard, you may pull the Command Palette (CTRL+SHIFT+P on Windows and Linux and CMD+SHIFT+P on Mac) and type "Get commit history with Watermelon".

View Pull Requests

Highlight a piece of code, and then click the View Pull Requests button to run Git Blame on the background. We will get the PR bodies and comments that are relevant to the highlighted piece of code for you.

Depending on the size of your GitHub history, this might take a few seconds.

Alternatively, you can run with our watermelon.start command

You may also highlight and right click on the code, you will find the 'Get Pull Requests with Watermelon' command at the end.

Daily Summary

Get an overview of which issues and PR reviews are assigned to you. Both on the current repository and across all GitHub.

To use it, open the Watermelon sidebar.

Paid Features

When you pay for Watermelon you can also:

• View Most Relevant Jira Ticket
• View Open Tickets on the Daily Summary

More integrations coming soon!

Requirements

• macOS 10.11+, Windows 10+ or Linux
• Visual Studio Code v1.63.0+
• You must have Git locally installed (try git --version or install it now)

Installation

Download from the VS Code Marketplace.

Alternatively, you can search for "Watermelon" in VS Code's built-in extension marketplace and install from there.

Commands

Watermelon comes with a few commands that you can run from VS Code's Command Palette. The result is exactly the same as running a Watermelon query with the green button. Results sit in your sidebar.

Shortcuts

As an alternative, you can use the following shortcuts:

• Ctrl+Shift+C (Cmd+Shift+C on Mac) to view Pull Requests

Contributing

Check out Contributing.md and be aware of the Code of Conduct!

We're an early stage project, therefore we still have the luxury to coordinate via short chats with our contributors. If you're interested in contributing, please join our Slack community. Alternatively, comment on our issues if you plan to solve one.

Analytics

We track user actions in an anonymous manner to improve our application. We store your GitHub username, repo name and organization.

We don't store your code

Supporters

About Watermelon

Watermelon is built by a globally distributed team of developers devoted to making software development easier. Join our Slack community, follow us on Twitter and go to the Watermelon blog to get the best programming tips.

License

• Apache License