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Simply Blame

Idea like git blame annotations for VS Code and others

Key features

  • Fast
  • Fully customizable colors
  • Different author formats
  • Many date formats
  • Two hover box options
  • Set a commit hash click action

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How to use

InstallPress ALT + BYou see the blame
Dark rgb colors annotations imageLight rgb colors annotations image

Hover box

You can choose the hash action from the extension settings that will be invoked when the hash is clicked.

Blame annotation gif animation

A minimal details box is an alternative to the normal which displays full details.
The minimal details box shows only the commit summary and the commit hash.

Minimal details hover box

Settings

Date Format
- System: use locale set by the VS Code
- Other predefined date formats
Author Style
- Full name: show author full name
- First name: show first name only
- Last name: show last name only
Hover Style
- Normal: show full commit details in a hover box
- Minimal: show a commit hash and a commit summary in a hover box
Hash Action
- Copy: copy a commit hash into the clipboard
- Open in remote: open commit in the browser
Heat Color Index Strategy
- Scale: scales through all commits of the file
- Highlight: highlights 10 last commits
Use RGBColor
- Selected: RGBColors List Dark and RGBColors List Light will be used
- Not selected: hex color lists will be used
Heat Map RGBColors List Dark
Heat Map RGBColors List Light
- Add, edit, choose a color to be used as a heat color
- The color must be in format r0-255,g0-255,b0-255,c0-9
- The rgb stands for Red,Green,Blue
- The c stands for change percentage, the value can be less than 10
- Choose a color by setting the value true in the table
- The first value to match true will be used otherwise the first color is used
Heat Map Colors Dark
Heat Map Colors Light
- Configure and change colors of the heat map hex color lists
- The top is hot and the bottom is cool

Comments from the community

"Is this the best git blame tool? ***damn right!

"It feels absolutely instant on the small files - wonderful!

"It does the one thing that it needs to do very well - many thanks for creating this!