Git Diff Margin

Git Diff Margin displays live Git changes of the currently edited file on Visual Studio margin and scroll bar.

• Supports Visual Studio 2012 through Visual Studio 2022
• Quickly view all current file changes on
  • Left margin
  • Scroll Bars in map and bar mode with and without source overview
    • blue rectangle for modifications
    • green rectangles for new lines
    • red triangles for deletions
    • all colors configurable through Visual Studio Fonts and Colors options
• Undo the change
• Copy the old code into the clipboard
• Copy a part of the old code by selecting it in the popup
• Show the diff in Visual Studio Diff window except for Visual Studio 2010 which still use configured Git external diff tool
• Navigate to previous/next change on file using user defined keyboard shortcuts or the popup icons
• Open popup with user defined keyboard shortcuts, close with esc key
• Support Visual Studio 2013 Dark, Light, and Blue Theme
• Support zoom
• Diff against something other than HEAD (Advanced users)

For a better experience you should disable Visual Studio built in 'Track changes' bar.

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Get the code

https://github.com/laurentkempe/GitDiffMargin

Installation

You might also install it using the following Chocolatey package.

Report Issue

• To report a bug, please use the Issue Tracker
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Release Notes

Version 3.12

Fix

• Fix invisible popup images

Version 3.11

New feature

• Add support for Visual Studio 2022

Version 3.10.4

Other

• Fix cannot install on older Visual Studio versions when Visual Studio 2021 preview 1 is installed

Version 3.10.3

Other

• Dependency reorganization and typo fix

Version 3.10.2

Security fix

• Update to LibGit2Sharp v0.26.2

Version 3.10.1

Security fix

• Update to LibGit2Sharp v0.26.1

Version 3.10.0

New features

• Diff against something other than HEAD (Advanced users)

Fix

• Fix memory leak

Version 3.9.4

Fix

• Fix files with CRLF have whole file highlighted as modified

Version 3.9.3

New feature

• Chocolatey package

Version 3.9.2

Fix

• Fix show the diff showing empty content

Version 3.9.1

Security fix

• Update to LibGit2Sharp v0.26.0

Version 3.9.0

New feature

• Add support for Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1

Version 3.8.2

Fixes

• Fix MoeIDE conflict

Version 3.8.1

Fixes

• Keyboard shortcut to show diff at a change works only on 1st line of a change
• Avoid to focus textbox when opening popup
• Avoid crashing if GitDiffMarginCommandHandler is not in the property bag

Version 3.8.0

New feature

• Center when moving to next/previous change with keyboard shortcus

Fix

• Address the "Gold Bar" notification saying Git Diff Margin was responsible for editor slowness

Version 3.7.1

Security fix

• Update to LibGit2Sharp v0.24.1 This is a security release fixing two issues. It updates libgit2's included zlib to 1.2.11, and includes a libgit2 fix for memory handling issues when reading crafted repository index files.

Version 3.7.0

New feature

• Add keyboard shortcut to show diff popup

Version 3.6.0

New feature

• Close popup using Escape key

Version 3.5.3

Fixes

• Fix unhandled AccessViolationException crashes in Visual Studio updating LibGit2Sharp

Version 3.5.2

Fixes

• Fix diff margin not shown when editing a project file

Version 3.5.1

Fixes

• Fix diff window complains that files have different encodings

Version 3.5.0

New feature

• Double-clicking on diff bar open Show Difference

Version 3.4.0

Fixes

• Fix installation in Visual Studio 2013 and earlier

Version 3.3.0

New features

• Add support for Visual Studio 2017 RC

Fixes

• Fix issue to upload on the marketplace

Other

• Drop support for Visual Studio 2010, download latest version supporting it here.

Version 3.2.2

Fixes

• Update to LibGit2Sharp v0.23.1

Version 3.2.1

Fixes

• Breaks Edit.GoTo command
• Update to LibGit2Sharp v0.23
• Automate AppVeyor build to create vsix

Version 3.2.0

New features

• Add support for Visual Studio 15 Preview and now Visual Studio 2017 RC

Version 3.1.2

Fixes

• Update LibGit2Sharp and LibGit2Sharp.NativeBinaries
• Visual Studio crashes #96
• With 3.1.1 use of memory of VS2013 increased until crashing #93
• Crash in git2-785d8c4.dll seen in version 3.1.1.0 #92

Version 3.1.1

Fixes

• Fix SQL Server Object Explorer issue #81
• Fix Enabling GitDiffMargin kills Git Source Control Provider #85
• Fix Memory corruption in underlying libgit2 native DLL #87

Version 3.1.0

Improvements

• Move diff bar to the right of the line numbers #71

Version 3.0.0

New features

• Support for Visual Studio 2010, 2012 and Visual Studio 2015
• Show diff using Visual Studio Diff window except for Visual Studio 2010 which still use external diff tool
• Possibility to define shortcuts for next/previous change navigation
• Add options for highlighting untracked lines #29
• Update icons

Improvements

• Improve external diff configuration handling in .gitconfig #32
• Improve "removed" glyph and editor diff positioning
• Improve support of Dark, Light and Blue theme
• Make sure the text editor is focused after a rollback
• Prevent ScrollDiffMargin from affecting the scroll bar behavior
• Play nice with other source control providers

Fixes

• Fix Show Difference fails with DiffMerge for file names with spaces #38
• Fix submodules issue #40

Previous release notes

Credits

Thanks to

• Sam Harwell @sharwell for all the improvements
• Rick Sladkey @ricksladkey for the fixes and features
• @Iristyle for the chocolatey package
• Yves Goergen @dg9ngf
• @heinzbeinz for the support of Visual Studio 15 preview
• Jamie Cansdale @jcansdale for bugfix
• Charles Milette sylveon for bugfix
• Gary Ewan Park @gep13 for the new chocolatey package
• Duncan Smart @duncansmart for bug fix