Commit Hike

Every commit you make moves you along a hiking trail, right inside VS Code. A day of steady work takes you about ten kilometers along a real mountain ridge, a desert crossing or a folk tale.

• Real trails. The Chornohora ridge over Hoverla and the Tongariro Alpine Crossing on their real GPS tracks, plus original stories.
• A hike you can watch. A side-on scene that follows the route's real elevation, the weather and your clock. Scroll back along the way you came.
• A real map. A topographic map of the whole trail: zoom in like on paper, the scale bar follows and more names appear.
• Stories, facts and achievements at every stop, streaks and your daily distance.
• Your own routes. Create one from a template and import it as a folder or a .zip.
• Walk together. Everyone committing to a project on the same trail, with a leaderboard.
• English and Ukrainian.

Private by design

• Nothing touches your projects. No git hooks, no files in your repositories: Commit Hike only reads your git history.
• Nothing leaves your computer. No accounts, no network requests, no telemetry.
• Real work counts. Lock files, generated code, whitespace-only changes and other people's commits don't.

Getting started

Open the Commit Hike view in the activity bar. A short setup asks which projects count and where your journey starts. Then just commit.

All commands are in the command palette under Commit Hike: choosing a trail, importing your own route, the hiker icon, difficulty, language and more.

Open source

Commit Hike is free and open source (MIT). If you enjoy the walk, a star on GitHub helps other developers find it. Bugs and ideas: issues.