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Discussion on: GitLive now works with any Git repository in VS Code!

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Agnieszka Stec

@madhavvij Happy to hear you'd like to give GitLive a try! Would be great to hear how it works for you :)

Answering your question: GitLens has focused more on making it easier to observe other users' historic changes holistically, whether that through side-by-side file comparisons or displaying git blames in VS Code.
GitLive has taken a more proactive approach to enable the user to collaborate with their colleagues, in both VS Code and JetBrains. The offline mode is just the tip of the iceberg, as it extends the IDE, allowing you to view and easily cherry-pick entire file changes from your teammates' branches in the team tree, or just line-by-line conflicts, right inside the editor.
So all in all, GitLive is more geared to developers when they actively working and especially working together while GitLens is a useful tool for looking at past changes.