Use the Gitlens extension. It supports various options. Once installed, you can use Alt+B to show the full file blame information.
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November 3, 2021 - Additional UI elements: in-context Git information like editor gutter indicators or Git blame annotations
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Use the Gitlens extension. It supports various options. Once installed, you can use Alt+B to show the full file blame information.
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If you use the GitLens plugin, you can also use the "File Annotations" icon in the top right of Visual Studio Code:
Or use the "GitLens: Toggle File Blame" command.
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January 11, 2024 -
I was just issued a new company laptop and have lost all of my VS extensions. I had one that did line by line git blame, so that I could see who had added a line of code six months ago and go ask him why.
I can't find it again in the marketplace. Any ideas?
[Answer] Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25076311/how-to-show-git-blame-in-visual-studio-2013.
Right click in the source window, choose "git", then "Blame (Annotate)".
No extension is required
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You're looking for the Annotate feature, which is built in to all versions of visual studio I believe. Right click a file in the solution Explorer, choose Git, then Annotate.
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I've thought about developing one for quite a while, but I never came across one in my searches. Definitely interested to see if somebody knows it!
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Extension for Visual Studio Code - See git blame information in the status bar or in-line.
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November 3, 2021 - VS Code can show git blame information inline in the editor and in the Status Bar. Hover over the Status Bar item or editor inline hint to view detailed git blame information, including any co-author trailers from the commit.
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October 21, 2021 - You start by indicating a point in history that contains the “thing” you’re trying to identify the origin of—that’s typically a bug—and another point where you’re sure the code doesn’t contain said element. Git bisect then moves you through the history, allowing you to evaluate each stop as “good” or “bad” until the bisect command identifies the commit which introduced the defect. When should you use bisect over blame?
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November 16, 2022 - You can open any project, but it will be useful if the code has multiple authors. After that, we need to click on the Extension tab in the left strip. Here, search for “blame” in the input box and press Enter. We will get a lot of extensions, but click on the first one, which is Git Blame by Wade Anderson and has 1.3 million downloads.
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March 26, 2025 - In this article, we will explore how to use git blame to track changes in a project. We will start with basic commands and gradually move into advanced features such as ignoring specific revisions, integrating with development tools, and using best practices.
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See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25076311/how-to-show-git-blame-in-visual-studio-2013 - afaik the functionality is available out of the box in VS. No extensions needed.
Just Right-click -> Git -> Blame (Annotate) I think.
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Try Quick Blame
Annotate can be slow on large files with a lot of churn
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EmmanuelAdebiyi.vs-quick-blame
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Add git blame on Visual Studio Code - DEV Community
September 28, 2022 - If you are coding on Visual Studio Code like me, you should activate git blame by following these steps : - Open Visual Studio Code - Press Ctrl+Shift+X (windows) or ⇧⌘X (Mac) - Type blame - Click install on Git Blame ·
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Custom width of on the `git blame` sidebar · Issue #2668 · gitkraken/vscode-gitlens
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[Suggestion] Git Blame info in gutter · Issue #2248 · microsoft/vscode
January 25, 2016 - Several other editors, either natively or through extensions, can quickly display information returned from git blame, which is a great tool to have while tracking down bugs or conflicts. It would be excellent if VS Code could imitate At...
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May 1, 2020 - In most ways, it can replace each of the previous two extension with its functionality. For “blame” information, a subtle message appears to the right of the line you are currently working on to inform you of who made the change, when they made it, and the associated commit message.
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Get Git Info with GitLens for VS Code | Blame, CodeLens, & More
November 14, 2022 - GitLens is an extension for VS Code that helps developers get powerful data hidden in Git repos. Learn how to get Git info with GitLens+, GitLens blame, and CodeLens.
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The Anatomy of an Agent Harness - by Avi Chawla
April 6, 2026 - It uses an Initializer Agent that sets up the environment (init script, progress file, feature list, initial git commit), then a Coding Agent in every subsequent session reads git logs and progress files to orient itself, picks the highest-priority incomplete feature, works on it, commits, and writes summaries.
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April 8, 2026 - Five git log commands that diagnose a new codebase before you open a single file: code churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
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April 18, 2026 - The built-in Git actions are enough for routine work: status checks, commits, diffs, and blame. That is useful. But the article rightly notes that anything more complex still pushes you toward the terminal or a separate tool. Markdown preview is the clearest example of friction.
Reddit
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r/vscode on Reddit: Simply Blame - Idea like git blame annotations to VS Code finally
July 10, 2024 -
Are you the kind of a guy who would like to have git blame annotations inside the text editor sound and clear? And think that the git lens gives too messy presentation nevertheless it has huge amount of features and tools that are too complicated to use. If you like to use the git on the terminal but would like to have a better way of checking the blame annotations than via the terminal. No worries. After a long time of delay I finally got this extension written. The extension does simply one thing, git blame, hence the name simply blame and it presents the blame annotations clearly on the each line of the code. Go check the extension out now. You can install the extension from the VS Code extensions marketplace by searching Simply Blame. Repository: https://github.com/JamiLu/simply-blame