We are happy to announce that GitLive's flagship feature, early merge conflict detection, now works across all branches in VS Code! ๐
When we first introduced real-time merge conflict detection, only the changes from each of your teammatesโ current branch were shown in the gutter. This meant you could miss a merge conflict from changes in a branch that is not currently being worked on, for instance, changes from a PR waiting for review. Now the change indicators in the gutter of the editor show changes from all branches that contain changes compared to your current branch.
And, as before, and as long as you are not in offline mode, this includes the unpushed changes of your teammates that are also not in offline mode for real-time, instant merge conflict detection!
New gutter indicator filters
Previously you had a simple switch to show or hide the indicators you see in the gutter of the editor. Now, similar to the team window, you can filter the change indicators shown in the gutter of your editor by type.
Itโs worth noting that these filters are independent of the team window filters, but when you change the team window filters the gutter indicator filters are automatically updated to match (but not vice versa). To open the gutter filters menu, click on the GitLive icon in the upper right corner of VS Code.
๐ธ Pushed Changes. Turning off pushed changes will hide the indicators coming from the pushed changes on other branches.
๐ธ Unpushed Changes. Turning off unpushed changes will hide the indicators coming from the unpushed changes of your teammates.
๐ธ Non-conflicting changes. On by default, turn off non-conflicting changes to only show conflicts in the gutter.
๐ธ Include stale changes. By default, changes from branches that have not been modified in 3 months are hidden, turn this on to show them.
๐ Both pushed and unpushed changes are on by default, turn both off to hide the indicators completely
Thatโs it for now, we would love to know what you think of these updates and how we can make GitLive better for you, so please reach out via the comments section below.
Don't have the GitLive extension installed yet? You can find it here, and if want to learn more about the latest release, check out this blog post.
Top comments (14)
I find this interesting and I'll probably take a try sonner rather than later, specially now that GitKraken (which also has teams and early merge conflicts detection) will drop boards feature and I'll need to pick a replacement tool ๐๐ผ๐
Thanks! Would be great to know what you think, so don't hesitate to reach out with any questions or feedback you may have :)
Sure! that's the good thing on the community ๐
I'll take a try on it on my PC first as I've some constraints to use new software at work, then I can check whether to recommend it or not to the company.
I am checking this and wondering if is there any free trial so I can check that Instant Merge Conflict Detection
Thank you
Yes, 30-day free trial is included, so in order to test it you can just go ahead and install the app :)
Perfect, thank you! :)
Hello !
Probably better if you share this on VSCodeTips, part of the Forem network of communities dedicated to this IDE. You could find interesting topics, sharing about plugins and themes, and any other kind of topic around this software.
Thanks!
Good post!
Thanks for this!
Didn't know about this! Looking forward to trying it!
Happy to hear this! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or feedback!
Hey, this is quite helpful! Thanks โจ
Happy to hear that! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions :)
That cools super cool, I have not read the whole article but I read the title and I am not excited to look deeper into the capabilities of the GitLens thank you for specifically mentioning this feature.