vscode-gitlens VS gitui

Quite a while ago, the GitLens+ plugin gained the Commit Graph feature--the same graph you see in GitKraken. Until then I had used Git Graph for visualizing my repositories and GitLens+ for git blame in the GUI. Since one plugin could now do both, the natural course of action was to remove the other--goodbye, Git Graph!

Btw, today I want to speak about something different, I love git and I love terminal, but sometimes I love having the info visualised appealingly and get info about the source control quickly. I work with VsCode typically, so some months ago I tried to find a solution for this editor that resolves what was said before. After googling and some testing, the result of my search was: GitLens. Now, I want to show you how it works and how it can improve your routine. So don't waste time and let's jump in it!

GitLens extension chef's kiss

for GitLens https://gitlens.amod.io/

Hi. Vs code is pretty well integrated with git. There are built in git support and a couple other plugins. For example, the most popular git plugin for vs code is git lens. It also has powerful rebase editor (i guess, it is my favorite feature), which you can enable by following this guide. I personally realy enjoing Git Graph extension, which allow you to observe your git history in pretty similar to git kraken way. It also provide navigation facilities and some other useful features.

Redder color means changes were made very recently in that area. Again you can fully customize age thresholds, locations, the color of the most recent and least recent changes, etc., from the settings.

So here are some of my favorite GitLens features that I use regularly. You can find the full list of the features here.

Phone a friend. I recommend integrating git blame into your development environment I use the Git lens plugin which shows you, directly within files in a code editor, who authored certain file changes and the PR which can be helpful for quickly getting more context regarding decisions by looking at the associated Pull Request or having the opportunity to connect directly with the committer. Pair programming can be an effective way to debug and share knowledge. Similar, to the magic of figuring out the solution to a bug in the shower or overnight there is a phenomenon called rubber ducky debugging in which just explaining the issue to someone else (even an inanimate rubber duck) can help make the solution more obvious.

If you're using VS Code, get the GitLens extension. It has an interactive rebase editor which I find very helpful (as well as heaps of other nice features).

GitLens - https://gitlens.amod.io/#features , see who did what, when and why in your IDE and also quickly see any changes you have made

gitui -- git tui

I recently discovered "This Week In Neovim" and was blown away by the number of new plugins. I also discovered gitui, TUI for git written in Rust that's less than 1 year old. I was blown away by this amazing tool. So I was looking whether there's "This Week In Neovim" equivalence? Any newsletter? I used to subscribe to the weekly newsletter console.dev but it's mostly new developer tools, which is not very relevant to enhance our Linux day-to-day experience. Examples like fzf, ranger, yt-dlp etc.

Going to work on my open source projects: https://github.com/liveask/liveask and https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui - if you look to contribute to a rust project with some mentorship let me know

I use gitui. Its a TUI written in rust and it is great. I mainly use it for looking at the gitlog, committing, and pushing.

https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui

extrawurst/gitui

Gitui's README mentions that Lazygit freezes and sometimes crashes parsing large repos, taking the example of the linux repo, and reports that Gitui is more than twice as fast: https://github.com/extrawurst/gitui#3--benchmarks-top-

At least for the stability issues, does this match your experience?

I see others have mentioned tig here as well, I'd be curious to hear if they also find it somewhat slow and unstable. Gitui's linux benchmark lists it as being almost 11 times faster than tig.

gitui inside FTerm.nvim has been my preferred method to interact with git from within nvim. gitui has indeed proven to be a great frontend to git.

GitUI: Lovely terminal UI, fails the requirement