# GitLens

6 Hacker News commenters recommended GitLens and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** VS Code extension that shows who changed each line and offers a mouse-friendly rebase UI for editing commits.

## Why people recommend it

- Mouse-friendly UI for git tasks (2 comments): "It's almost literally exactly what's in the text editor, just with a more friendly-for-mouse UX." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057246)) "It provides a drag-and-drop UI with a dropdown to select actions applied to each commit." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054379))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [VS Code Remote SSH](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vs-code-remote-ssh.md): 22 recommend
- [Fresh File Explorer](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fresh-file-explorer.md): 9 recommend
- [vscode-neovim](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vscode-neovim-extension.md): 6 recommend
- [Calva](https://hackerapproved.com/p/calva.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "GitLens", https://hackerapproved.com/p/gitlens/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).