Instantly discover who, when, and why a line of code was changed. Git Loupe is a lightweight, high-performance VS Code extension that provides unobtrusive inline Git blame annotations and a powerful hover card featuring smart contextual diff snippets.
No bloated menus, no heavy background processes. Just the exact Git information you need, exactly when you need it.
✨ Features
Inline Blame Annotations: Displays a subtle, dim annotation at the end of the current active line showing the author, relative time, and commit message.
Rich Hover Details: Hover over the active line to reveal an elegantly formatted card with full commit details, precise timestamps, and the author's email.
Smart Contextual Diff (Killer Feature): Unlike other extensions that struggle with diff alignment, Git Loupe extracts the precise red/green diff snippet for the specific change. Powered by Git's advanced histogram algorithm, it displays context around the specific change making it incredibly easy to understand what exactly changed.
Uncommitted Changes Support: Instantly view the diff for your current, uncommitted workspace changes against the HEAD right in the hover card.
Highly Optimized: Completely event-driven to ensure zero impact on your editor's performance.
🚀 See it in Action
⚙️ Requirements
Git must be installed on your system and accessible from the command line/system path.
Visual Studio Code 1.107.0 or higher.
📦 Extension Settings
This extension contributes the following settings:
gitloupe.maxDiffLines: Controls the maximum number of lines to display in the hover diff snippet context. (Default: 1). Increase this number if you prefer to see more surrounding code context within the red/green diff view.
🐛 Known Issues
None currently reported. If you find any issues or have feature requests, please open an Issue on the GitHub repository.
📝 Release Notes
1.0.2
Initial release of Git Loupe! 🎉
Added inline line blame annotations.
Added rich hover card with author details and commit hash.
Implemented smart histogram diff extraction for contextual code changes.
Added support for real-time uncommitted changes diff viewing.
Added customizable setting gitloupe.maxDiffLines to adjust hover diff length.
