GitLens
Shares rank 3 of 5 vs code extensions by recommenders
VS Code extension that shows who changed each line and offers a mouse-friendly rebase UI for editing commits.
VS Code extension that shows who changed each line and offers a mouse-friendly rebase UI for editing commits.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Mouse-friendly UI for git tasks
“It's almost literally exactly what's in the text editor, just with a more friendly-for-mouse UX.”
Comment from 26 Jul 2026 in “Git rebase -I is not that scary” “It provides a drag-and-drop UI with a dropdown to select actions applied to each commit.”
Comment from 26 Jul 2026 in “Git rebase -I is not that scary”
Other vs code extensions people recommend
The four most recommended other vs code extensions, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VS Code Remote SSH | 22 | 27 | 45% | 8 | — | — |
| Fresh File Explorer | 9 | 0 | 100% | 1 | — | — |
| GitLensThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 5 | — | — |
| vscode-neovim | 6 | 1 | 86% | 6 | — | — |
| Calva | 5 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“That's nowhere what you would get out of a tool like GitLens or Sublime Merge.”
“It's almost literally exactly what's in the text editor, just with a more friendly-for-mouse UX.”
“It provides a drag-and-drop UI with a dropdown to select actions applied to each commit.”
“its silly and you have to use GitLense”
“It's nice to have all the LSP features available too while editing.”
“seeing the person who actually committed it was more helpful”
“the popular Gitlens extension also recently pushed a really poor rebase interface”
“Tools like gitlens make this really easy.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.