Beautiful Git

A fast, Canvas-rendered git client built into Visual Studio Code — a commit graph with branch management, staging, stashes, and merge/rebase tooling, all inside the editor and matched to your VS Code theme.

Features

Commit graph

• Rendered on an HTML canvas for smooth scrolling over large histories, with lane layout, per-branch coloring, and topological / date / Bek ordering.
• Ref pills put local branches first, mark remotes with a globe glyph, and middle-truncate long names so a single branch never crowds the row.
• Filter toolbar — search by text or commit hash (with match-case and regex toggles) and filter by Branch, User, Date, or Paths.
• Jump to any commit with Go to hash or branch, or click a branch in the list to scroll the graph to its tip.

Branches

• List, check out, create, rename, delete, merge, rebase, and compare with the current branch — from a dedicated panel and from the graph.
• Push in any mode — normal, --force-with-lease, or --force — from the branch context menu, with a confirmation before any force push.
• Favorite branches and see ahead/behind counts against their upstream.

Changes & commits

• Stage or unstage an individual file, selected hunks, or a whole folder from the change tree.
• Commit, amend, Commit & Push, or force push with a click; skip hooks, allow empty, and set the author from the commit options.
• Colored status badges (added / modified / deleted / renamed / conflicted) and native side-by-side diffs.

Stashes

• Create, apply, pop, drop, and branch-from stashes without leaving the editor.

Merge & rebase

• Resolve merge conflicts in VS Code's native 3-way merge editor (or an optional built-in editor).
• Interactive rebase — reorder, squash, edit, and drop commits.

Repositories & worktrees

• Work across multiple repositories and git worktrees from one Repositories panel; pull or push a worktree inline.
• Worktrees you add or remove in the terminal appear automatically — no manual refresh needed.
• Optional background auto-fetch keeps ahead/behind counts fresh.

Blame

• Per-line author and date annotations with reveal-in-graph. Consecutive lines from the same commit are annotated once, and the column keeps a fixed width so code stays aligned.
• The line under the cursor shows who last changed it, dimmed at the end of the line. Works on unsaved buffers too.

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code 1.85 or newer.
• git available on your PATH.

Extension settings

• beautifulGit.fontFamily — font for the whole panel (graph, branch lists, details). Empty uses the VS Code interface font.
• beautifulGit.fontSize — panel font size in px. 0 uses the VS Code setting.
• beautifulGit.autoFetch.enabled — run a background git fetch periodically.
• beautifulGit.autoFetch.intervalMinutes — how often the background fetch runs.
• beautifulGit.blame.currentLine — show blame for the line under the cursor (on by default).
• beautifulGit.mergeEditor — native (default) opens VS Code's 3-way merge editor; custom opens the built-in editor.

License

Released under the MIT License. Bundled third-party components and their licenses are listed in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.