Just Blame 🪲

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Git Blame annotations sidebar, inspired by JetBrains editors.

Install from Visual Studio Marketplace or Open VSX Registry

With light theme:

With dark theme:

Commit information tooltip:

Features

• Very minimal and fast.
• Heatmap like in JetBrains editors.
• Supports light and dark modes out of the box, and doesn’t come with insanely bright colors by default.
• Doesn’t use any resources until you turn on the annotations.
• Doesn’t pollute the editor with too many commands and hotkeys.

Commands

You can either run this commands from the Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P on a Mac, or Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows), or use hotkeys.

Description	Name	Default Mac	Default Windows
Toggle Git blame annotations	justBlame.toggleBlame

Settings

You can change the following options in the Visual Studio Code setting:

Description	Setting	Default
Colors to show age of blame entries	justBlame.colorScale	See below
Locale to format dates	justBlame.locale	en-GB

Here’s how a config file would look like with default options:

{
  "justBlame.colorScale": {
    "light": [
      "#a4bed0",
      "#aec5d5",
      "#b8ccdb",
      "#c2d4e0",
      "#cddbe5",
      "#d7e2ea",
      "#e1e9ef",
      "#ebf1f5",
      "#f5f8fa",
      "#fcfdfd"
    ],
    "dark": [
      "#65469b",
      "#5e4190",
      "#573c86",
      "#50377b",
      "#493371",
      "#422e66",
      "#3d2b5f",
      "#362654",
      "#2f214a",
      "#291c3f"
    ]
  },
  "locale": "en-GB"
}

Changelog

The changelog can be found on the Changelog.md file.

How is it different from other extensions?

Most Markdown extensions are bloated with commands and hotkeys I’d never need. In Just Blame I added only commands that I either use very often (like bold or italic), or can never remember the correct syntax (like tables). Other tools (like list autocomplete) make the writing comfortable.

You may also like

Check out my other Visual Studio Code extensions:

• Emoji Console Log: insert console.log() statements with a random emoji
• Mini Markdown: minimalist kit for comfortable Markdown writing
• New File Now: create new files from the command palette
• Notebox: take quick notes in the bottom panel
• Reveal in Ghostty: reveal current project or folder in Ghostty
• Reveal in Nimble Commander: reveal current project or folder in Nimble Commander
• Todo Tomorrow: highlight TODO, HACK, FIXME, etc. comments
• Squirrelsong Light Theme: low contrast non-distracting light theme for web developers
• Squirrelsong Dark Theme: low contrast non-distracting dark theme for web developers

Sponsoring

This software has been developed with lots of coffee, buy me one more cup to keep it going.

Contributing

Bug fixes are welcome, but not new features. Please take a moment to review the contributing guidelines.

Authors and license

Artem Sapegin, and contributors.

MIT License, see the included License.md file.