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Git Annotate: Inline Blame View

Git Annotate: Inline Blame View

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Git Blame annotations inline, inspired by Zed editor
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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Git Annotate 🪲

Git Blame annotations inline, forked from sapegin/vscode-just-blame.

Install from Visual Studio Marketplace

Screenshots

Just Blame with light theme

Just Blame with dark theme

Commit information tooltip:

Commit information tooltip

Features

  • Minimal and fast.
  • Zed editor like git annotation.
  • Supports light and dark modes out of the box.

Commands

You can either run this commands from the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P on a Mac, or Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows), or use hotkeys.

Description Name Default Mac Default Windows
Toggle Git blame annotations gitAnnotate.toggleAnnotate

Settings

You can change the following options in the Visual Studio Code setting:

Description Setting Default
Colors to show age of blame entries gitAnnotate.colorScale See below
Show relative time (e.g. '2 days ago') instead of absolute date gitAnnotate.useRelativeTime true
Whether to apply colors to text or background gitAnnotate.colorMode text

Here’s how a config file would look like with default options:

{
  "gitAnnotate.colorScale": {
    "light": [
      "#999999",
      "#a65e2b",
      "#59873a",
      ...
    ],
    "dark": [
      "#c99076",
      "#80a665",
      "#4d9375",
      ...
    ]
  },
  "gitAnnotate.useRelativeTime": true,
  "gitAnnotate.colorMode": "text"
}

Changelog

The changelog can be found on the Changelog.md file.

Sponsoring

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Authors and license

MIT License, see the included License.md file.

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