

For advanced customizations, refer to the GitLens docs and edit your user settings. Do you find CodeLens intrusive or the current line blame annotation distracting - no problem, quickly turn them off or change how they behave via the interactive GitLens Settings editor. GitLens is powerful, feature rich, and highly customizable to meet your needs. Effortlessly explore the history and evolution of a codebase. Jump back through history to gain further insights as to how and why the code evolved. Quickly glimpse into whom, why, and when a line or code block was changed. GitLens simply helps you better understand code. GitLens is an open-source extension for Visual Studio Code.

It helps you to visualize code authorship at a glance via Git blame annotations and CodeLens, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, gain valuable insights via rich visualizations and powerful comparison commands, and so much more. VSCodium exists to make it easier to get the latest version of MIT-licensed VS Code.GitLens supercharges Git inside VS Code and unlocks untapped knowledge within each repository. If you want to build from source yourself, head over to Microsoft’s vscode repo and follow their instructions. These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. This project includes special build scripts that clone Microsoft’s vscode repo, run the build commands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases.

The VSCodium project exists so that you don’t have to download+build from source. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license. When we build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. According to this comment from a Visual Studio Code maintainer: Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.
