Git Blame

Features:

• See Git Blame information in the status bar for the currently selected line.
• See Git Blame information on the last selected line in your editor.
• Quick link to open the latest commit on the current line in the most popular online git tools.
• Open git show for the latest commit on the current line in an vscode terminal.

How to use

Git blame adds git blame information to your vscode compatible view. See information about what commit last changed a line and how long ago it was. Click the message to see more information about the commit. It is possible to edit all of these information messages in the settings. There are multiple tokens avalible. These are described below.

Git Blame works very well with WSL but does not work with the web browser based vscode compatible editors.

Configuration

gitblame.commitUrl

Type: string

Default value: "${tool.protocol}://${gitorigin.hostname}${gitorigin.port}${gitorigin.path}${tool.basepath}/${hash}"

Url where you can see the commit by hash

If set to an empty value it will try to guess the URL based on your remote origin. Can only support servers that don't require auth.

Available tokens:

• ${hash} - the commit hash
• ${file.path} - path to the final file
• ${file.path.result} - path to the final file
• ${file.path.source} - path to the original file
• ${file.line} - the line number of the line in the final file
• ${file.line.result} - the line number of the line in the final file
• ${file.line.source} - the line number of the line in the original file
• ${project.defaultbranch} - The current projects default branch
• ${project.name} - your project name (e.g. project_name in https://github.com/user/project_name.git)
• ${project.remote} - the current default remote's URL with the protocol, port-specifiers, and trailing .git stripped. (e.g. github.com/user/project_name in https://github.com/user/project_name.git)
• ${gitorigin.hostname} - the git origin domain (e.g. github.com in https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next.git)
• ${gitorigin.hostname,n} - the nth part of the git origin domain (e.g. if the git origin is https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next.git ${gitorigin.hostname,1} will return com)
• ${gitorigin.path} - the git origin path (e.g. /ckb-next/ckb-next.git in https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next.git)
• ${gitorigin.path,n} - the nth part of the git origin path (e.g. if the git origin is https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next.git ${gitorigin.path,1} will return ckb-next.git)
• ${gitorigin.port} - the git origin port (if it uses http/https) including prefixed :
• ${tool.protocol} - http: or https:
• ${tool.commitpath} - /commit/ or /commits

gitblame.pluralWebPathSubstrings

Type: string[]

Default value: ["bitbucket", "atlassian"]

An array of substrings that, when present in the git origin URL, replaces commit with commits in the gitblame.commitUrl token tool.commitpath. Set the value to something that matches anything to recreate the old gitblame.isWebPathPlural-setting.

gitblame.ignoreWhitespace

Type: boolean

Default value: false

Use the git blame -w flag.

gitblame.infoMessageFormat

Type: string

Default value: "${commit.hash} ${commit.summary}"

Message that appears when the gitblame.quickInfo command executes (when you click the status bar message).

gitblame.statusBarMessageFormat

Type: string

Default value: "Blame ${author.name} (${time.ago})"

Message in the status bar about the current line's git blame commit. (Available tokens)[#message-tokens].

gitblame.statusBarMessageNoCommit

Type: string

Default value: "Not Committed Yet"

Message in the status bar about the current line when no commit can be found. No available tokens.

gitblame.statusBarPositionPriority

Type: number

Default value: 500

Priority where the status bar view should be placed. Higher value should be placed further to the left.

gitblame.inlineMessageFormat

Type: string

Default value: "Blame ${author.name} (${time.ago})"

Message on the current line in the editor about the line's git blame commit. (Available tokens)[#message-tokens].

gitblame.inlineMessageNoCommit

Type: string

Default value: "Not Committed Yet"

Message on the current line when no commit can be found. No available tokens.

gitblame.inlineMessageEnabled

Type: boolean

Default value: false

To enable the inline git blame view. Shows blame information at the end of the current line if avalible.

gitblame.inlineMessageMargin

Type: number

Default value: 2

The amount of margin between line and inline blame view

gitblame.delayBlame

Type: number

Default value: 0

This setting adds a delay (in milliseconds) before the blame is displayed

gitblame.parallelBlames

Type: number

Default value: 2

Limit how many git blame processes the extension can run in parallel. This can help with high CPU usage.

gitblame.revsFile

Type: string[]

Default value: []

List of refs-file names to look for relative to the closest .git-folder. The first file in the list that is accessible will be used with the -S argument in git blame.

Message Tokens

Token	Function	Parameter	Default Value	Description
${commit.hash,length}	Yes	length	64	the first length characters of the 40-bit (or 64-bit) hash unique to the commit
${commit.hash_short,length}	Yes	length	7	the first length characters of the 40-bit (or 64-bit) hash unique to the commit
${commit.summary}	Yes	length	65536	the first length characters of the first line of the commit message
${author.name}	No	-	-	the commit author's name
${author.mail}	No	-	-	the commit author's e-mail
${author.timestamp}	No	-	-	timestamp for the commit author's commit
${author.tz}	No	-	-	the commit author's time zone
${author.date}	No	-	-	the commit author's date (ex: 1990-09-16)
${committer.name}	No	-	-	the committer's name
${committer.mail}	No	-	-	the committer's e-mail
${committer.timestamp}	No	-	-	timestamp for the committer's commit
${committer.tz}	No	-	-	the committer's time zone
${committer.date}	No	-	-	the committer's date (ex: 1990-09-16)
${time.ago}	No	-	-	displays an estimation of how long ago the author committed (e.g. 10 hours ago, 20 days ago, 4 months ago)
${time.c_ago}	No	-	-	displays an estimation of how long ago the committer committed (e.g. 10 hours ago, 20 days ago, 4 months ago)

Known issues

The gitblame.gitShow command does not work with my shell

If your default terminal profile is set to cmd.exe gitblame.gitShow will not function correctly. Fix this by using a unix compatible shell.

Acknowledgements

• Logo by Jason Long.