vscode-line-history
Track uncommitted line changes as you type.
Features
Annotate lines with timestamps in real time. Think about git blame, but without explicit git add or git commit.
View previous versions ever typed. Think about fine grained undo history that persists across VSCode restarts, and with blame integrated.
Show all (including deleted) lines in a single view. Think about git diff but instead of comparing two versions, compare all versions together.
Import initial file history from Git.
Usage
Enabling the extension will make it track changes to local files made by the VSCode text editor. When a file get saved, its tracked changes will be written to the extension globalStoragePath specified by VSCode.
Press Ctrl+K L, or right-click the tab title then click "Show Line History" to enter the "Line History" view.
In the "Line History" view: Press [ or ] to check out previous, or next versions. Press d to toggle deleted lines. Those features can also be found as buttons at the right of the tab bar. Press enter to check out the version specified by the selected line.
Settings
This extension contributes the following settings:
lineHistory.showLineTimestamp: Enable/disable line timestamp in normal editors. Turning this on might affect performance.lineHistory.importFromGit: Whether to import history from Git on first access to a file.
Release Notes
0.2.0
- Import history from Git (optionally).
0.1.0
