New views layout for greater focus and productivity

[d13]

In GitLens 14, we've restructured our views for greater focus and productivity, including the new GitLens Inspect side bar. We also moved some of our views from the Source Control side bar into either the GitLens or the new GitLens Inspect side bar.

GitLens Inspect side bar as shown above has been manually moved into the Secondary Side Bar (see pro-tip below)

GitLens Inspect side bar

The all new GitLens Inspect is like an x-ray into your code, which focuses on providing contextual information and insights to what you're actively working on. Think about it as the developer tools inspector for your code.

Views include:

• Commit Details
• Line History
• File History
• Visual File History
• Search & Compare

Pro tip: you can drag the entire GitLens Inspect side bar onto your secondary side bar, without needing to arrange views on-by-one

GitLens side bar

We've re-focused this to be the home of GitKraken teams and collaboration services (e.g. GitKraken Workspaces) as well as discovery, help, and support.

Views include:

• Home view
• GitKraken Workspaces
• GitKraken Account

Source Control side bar

We've slimmed down this side bar to only contain views that are focused on your repositories.

Views include:

• Commits
• Branches
• Remotes
• Stashes
• Tags
• Worktrees
• Contributors
• Repositories (hidden by default)

(Bottom) Panel

The new home for the Commit Graph which provides convenient and easy access to the Graph. Additionally, this includes a dedicated details view. Quickly toggle the Graph via the new Toggle Commit Graph command.

Views include:

• Commit Graph
• Commit Graph Details

Pro tip: Setup a hotkey to toggle the Graph by opening the Command Palette, type Toggle Commit Graph, and click the "cog" icon on the end. When the Keyboard Shortcuts tab opens, press the "add" icon and record a keybinding.

Updating to the new views layout

Unless you opt into the new layout, which we recommend, your existing views will stay where they are. You can opt-in at any time from Reset Views Layout in the Command Palette.

After upgrading to GitLens 14 (or June 8th's Pre-Release), you'll be prompted to change to this layout:

[devinrhode2]

A video demo of this would be awesome! I have my set patterns of usage for gitlens.

Basically, I have my traditional vscode source control/git pane.

In that same side bar on the bottom half, I have gitlens "Commits" view.

As I commit, changes move downward.

I often use fixup! Foo, amend! Foo .. Bar commits, with rebase.autoSquash enabled, and am running git pull origin master:master --rebase=i to pull latest master. (:master causes local master to update, =i means interactive, which causes auto-squashing to happen).

git absorb would be really good to add into git lens ui. I've outlined that in another issue!

[devinrhode2]

I often use gitlen's git blame to copy-paste a commit message into fixup! Foo commits that I manually write.

Would love some options to "squash/fixup/amend" in gitlens' blame hovercard.

Any action that creates a squash/fixup/amend commit could immediately launch into rebasing that change.

Rebasing a singular change is easier than rebasing multiple different fixup/squashes. (e.g. You know you just renamed A to B or changed interface Y to Z, now handle conflicts for that change and that change only)

[devinrhode2]

PR autolinks are super nice - if any SCM providers are not supported I'm sure people would love to see that added.

[devinrhode2]

My "Commits" pane disappeared, but I was able to go into here, Click "Commits" and restored the pane by dragging it back to source control pane and dropping it on the bottom half.

[eamodio]

My "Commits" pane disappeared, but I was able to go into here, Click "Commits" and restored the pane by dragging it back to source control pane and dropping it on the bottom half.

I don't understand how Commits would have disappeared (or moved) -- its default "home" wasn't changed. FWIW, you can also get access to any of the views (hidden or not) from the Command Palette.

[adalisk-emikhaylov]

Unless you opt into the new layout, which we recommend, your existing views will stay where they are.

I don't think I got a prompt. My views moved themselves from the "source control" tab to the new tabs.

[rocka]

Can the views under "Source Control side bar" be moved to "GitLens side bar" or "GitLens Inspect side bar", like "GitLens Layout" in version 13.x? I have many submodules in a project, and the Source Control side bar is too crowded.

[eamodio]

Yes, though you'll need to drag and drop them there manually.