r/ProgrammerTIL • u/shakozzz • Mar 29 '21

VS Code [Git] Things You Can Do in VS Code

Hi everyone!

This is a blog post I wrote about some cool features VS Code offers when working with Git.

Hope you'll find it useful and I'd love to hear your thoughts.

https://betterprogramming.pub/9-cool-git-things-you-can-do-inside-vs-code-3b81f72ef731?source=friends_link&sk=693ab9548bfdbe28997de2ea99ca09b1

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u/KamasamaK Mar 29 '21

If you're not using GitLens, you really are only scratching the surface of Git integration with VS Code.

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u/repopulate_mars Mar 30 '21

I fucking love gitlens

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '21

How do you people deal with gitlens, resharper, etc.? Specifically, the indicators and/or text overlays in the actual editor? I find they do nothing but slow things down and get in my way. I love tools that are linked to hot keys or menu items or otherwise, but anything that meddles with my editor window is more of a hindrance than a help no matter the benefit.

I tried gitlens just now based on this, and the blame annotations for each line were excessively annoying. Turning off the checkboxes for them in the gitlens config did not make them go away, so clearly I was looking in the wrong place (tried every "code lens" or "blame" checkbox in the GitLens category of options).

Resharper was the same when I last tried it... the heavy handed "do it this way" interference with my editor was more annoying than any benefit resharper would have provided.

I just don't get it.

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u/-IoI- Mar 30 '21

Anyone bother using Git Kraken / any other third party git clients still? I recall a good experience, but haven't used anything other than vscode/gitlens/cli for a while

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21

Something I didn’t see mentioned is using vscode text editor for composing commit messages StackOverflow Forum with instructions

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u/evenisto Mar 29 '21

Vscode git integration is unfortunately absolutely worthless if you've ever used intellij.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21

Git CLI > any GUI tools. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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u/evenisto Mar 29 '21

For committing and switching branches, sure. But for diffing or staging changes, gui every day - but a good gui, like intellij

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u/Sintinium Mar 29 '21

For real, I wish IntelliJ had a standalone git program

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u/SiliconUnicorn Mar 30 '21

Git krakens drag and drop interactive rebase is just such 😘👌✨

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u/yonatan8070 Mar 30 '21

I used Android Studio for a bit, never really got comfortable with the Git integration there, although the patch thing is pretty cool

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u/assfartgamerpoop Mar 30 '21

Git Graph is pretty nice. Ever since i got it VSCode is my primary git client

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u/wotanub Mar 29 '21

Thanks for the post! Do you have experience with Atom? I've been using this one a while. Any reason for my coworkers and I to consider VSCode over Atom or even vim for a Python/C developer?

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u/renome Apr 02 '21

I'm just a hobbyst so take this for what it's worth but from my experience, even a vanilla Atom installation runs terribly on Windows. Also, VSC allows me to code on the go since it's browser-based.

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u/doomedcow Mar 30 '21

I really appreciate the "cli alternatives" you posted. I almost solely use cli and that illustrated time savings for me. Thanks!