RioNoir/GitCharm: Your whole Git workflow in one place — commit, shelve, stash, sync and review pull requests (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea) across every repository, with a Git Log that keeps up. Inspired by IntelliJ/JetBrains IDEs.

GitCharm

Your whole Git workflow in one place.
_{Inspired by IntelliJ/JetBrains IDEs}

GitCharm brings a JetBrains-style Git experience to VS Code: a focused Commit Panel, a Log Panel with graph, interactive rebase, shelves and stashes, pull requests and issues for every major forge, and AI help where it saves you time — across every repository and submodule in your workspace.

✨ Features

📝 Commit Panel

Tree or flat list of changes with inline diff preview; commit only the files you select, even across several repositories at once.
Per-file actions: open, rollback, delete, add to .gitignore, compare with a branch, tag or commit.
Commit, Commit & Push, Amend — and when there's nothing left to commit, the button becomes Publish Branch or Sync Changes. If your branch and the remote have diverged, it asks whether to pull, rebase or force push (--force-with-lease).
Three view modes, chosen on first install:

AI commit messages written only from the files you're committing, streamed as they're generated.
Tabs for Sync (commits to push and pull, with badges), Shelf, Stash, Worktrees, Pull Requests and Issues — each one can be hidden or reordered.

📜 Log Panel

Commit graph with a branch and tag sidebar; filters by text, author, branch, date and repository search the whole history.
Commit details with per-file diffs, Cherry-Pick Selected Changes from a single file, and Explain with AI.
Compare Branches (⇄) shows only the commits one branch has and the other doesn't — by default, what your branch has that main doesn't yet.
Combined changes: select several commits — even across repositories — and see what they change together. With two commits, Snapshots diffs one against the other.
A live Uncommitted changes row on top of the graph.
Branch operations from the sidebar: checkout, merge, rebase, rename, delete, push, pull, and create a branch in every repository at once. Tags can be created, merged, pushed and deleted from the commit context menu.
Author avatars from your connected forge — no email address is sent to third parties.
Undock the Log (alone or with the Commit Panel) into an editor tab or a separate window, and choose where it opens by default.

🔁 Interactive Rebase

An IntelliJ-style editor: pick, reword, edit, squash, fixup or drop commits (also with the P/R/E/S/F/D keys), reorder them by drag and drop or Alt+Up/Down, and write new messages before the rebase even starts — so git only stops for Edit and on conflicts.

Start it from a commit in the Log, from a branch in the sidebar, or with GitCharm: Interactive Rebase…. Pushed commits are pointed out before you start, and uncommitted changes can be stashed and restored around the rebase. With git config --global sequence.editor "code --wait", a git rebase -i from the terminal opens the same editor.

🔀 Pull Requests & 🐞 Issues

Works with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket Cloud, Gitea/Forgejo, Azure DevOps and Azure DevOps Server 2020+ (self-hosted instances included), detected from the remote URL. Sign in with your VS Code GitHub or Microsoft account, or use a personal access token.

Browse, filter and search pull requests and issues without leaving VS Code: open, mine, assigned to me, review requested, mentioning me.
Create pull requests with a Markdown editor (@ mentions, tables, the repository's PR template), a live diff preview, and AI-generated title and description.
Full detail view: activity timeline, comments, reviewers, labels, CI checks, changed files with diffs, commits, Merge (with strategy choice) and Checkout.
From an issue: Create Branch (AI can suggest the name), insert #42 or Fixes #42 in the commit message, or let Resolve with AI (Beta) draft a fix on a new branch — shown to you before anything is written, and never committed for you.
On Azure DevOps, the Issues tab lists work items of any process template.

🤖 AI Assistance

Commit messages, pull request titles and descriptions, commit/PR/issue explanations, branch names and conflict resolution, with the provider you prefer:

VS Code language models (e.g. GitHub Copilot) — the default, no setup needed if you already use one.
APIs: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini — keys are kept in VS Code's secret storage.
CLIs: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI.
Local: Ollama, LM Studio.

Each operation can use its own provider and model, every prompt can be customized (GitCharm: Customize AI Prompts), and AI can be turned off entirely with gitcharm.ai.enabled.

🗂️ Multi-Repository Workspaces

Nested repositories and submodules discovered automatically, with configurable depth and ignored folders.
One commit flow, one sync and one set of branch actions across all repositories.
Per-repository colors in the graph and the Commit Panel; filter the Log to one repository with a click.
Hide repositories you don't need — remembered per workspace.

🧰 And More

Shelve & Stash: patch-based shelves with partial unshelve, native stashes shown right in the Log graph.
Worktrees: create, open, lock, remove and prune them from their own tab.
Git Menu in the status bar: fetch, pull, push and sync every repository at once, plus branches, tags and remotes per repository.
Git Profiles: switch the identity (user.name / user.email) you commit with, per workspace.
Git Annotations: inline blame columns and end-of-line ghost text, linked to the Log.
Conflict resolution in VS Code's 3-way merge editor, or with AI from a CodeLens on each conflict.
Protected branches: committing or pushing to them asks first, force pushing is refused.
Orphaned branches: get notified when a local branch has lost its remote one.

⚙️ Settings Page

Everything is configured from GitCharm: Settings, a dedicated page styled after VS Code's own Settings editor, with search, User/Workspace scopes and a live preview for each category — including AI providers (with Test Connection) and the Cloud Integrations that connect your forge accounts.

GitCharm settings and cloud integrations

📦 Installation

Install GitCharm from the VS Code Marketplace, or search for it in the Extensions view. It activates automatically when the workspace contains a Git repository.

Requirements: VS Code 1.93 or newer and Git.

From source

With Node.js 18 or newer:

npm install
npm run build
npm run package
code --install-extension gitcharm-<version>.vsix

To work on GitCharm itself, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

🚀 Getting Started

Open GitCharm in the Activity Bar to commit, and GitCharm Log in the bottom panel to browse history.
Click the branch in the status bar for the Git Menu, and the profile next to it to switch identity.
Run GitCharm: Settings to pick an AI provider and connect your GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea or Azure DevOps account.

⌨️ Commands & Shortcuts

Some of the most useful commands:

All commands are in the Command Palette under GitCharm — see the full list of commands.

⚙️ Settings

All settings are easiest to change from GitCharm: Settings. A selection of the most useful ones — see the full list of settings for all of them:

| Setting | Default | Description | |:--|:--|:--| | gitcharm.changesViewMode | simplified | How changes are shown: simplified, changelists or vscode. | | gitcharm.defaultCommitAction | commit | Main action of the commit button: commit or commitAndPush. | | gitcharm.defaultSaveAction | stash | Main action of the Save button: stash or shelve. | | gitcharm.pullMode | ask | How GitCharm pulls: ask, merge, rebase or ffOnly. | | gitcharm.fetchOnStartup | true | Fetch all remotes when GitCharm starts. | | gitcharm.autoFetchInterval | 0 | Fetch every this many minutes while VS Code is focused (0: off). | | gitcharm.protectedBranches | [] | Branches to guard, e.g. main or release/*. | | gitcharm.branchNameModels | [] | Prefixes suggested for new branches, e.g. feature/, bugfix/. | | gitcharm.commitSignoff | false | Add a Signed-off-by line to every commit. | | gitcharm.graphMaxCommits | 1000 | Commits loaded into the Log graph (100–10000). | | gitcharm.gitLogDefaultLocation | panel | Where the Log opens: panel, editorTab or newWindow. | | gitcharm.repositoryScanMaxDepth | 1 | How deep to look for nested repositories in the workspace. | | gitcharm.submoduleMaxDepth | 5 | How deep to show nested submodules (0: none). | | gitcharm.projectColors | {} | A color for each repository in multi-repo views. | | gitcharm.commitPanel.tabOrder | all tabs | Order of the Commit Panel tabs; each one can also be hidden. | | gitcharm.issues.branchNameTemplate | {number}-{title} | Name suggested for a branch created from an issue. | | gitcharm.issues.commitReferenceTemplate | #{number} | Text inserted when referencing an issue, e.g. Fixes #{number}. | | gitcharm.pullRequests.defaultMergeStrategy | merge | Pre-selected merge strategy: merge, squash, rebase or fastForward. | | gitcharm.ai.enabled | true | Enable the AI features. | | gitcharm.ai.provider | vscode-lm | Default AI provider. | | gitcharm.ai.language | "" | Language of AI-generated text (e.g. it); VS Code's display language when empty. | | gitcharm.avatars.gravatar.enabled | false | Fall back to Gravatar for avatars. Sends a hash of the author's email to gravatar.com. |

Example:

{
  "gitcharm.defaultCommitAction": "commitAndPush",
  "gitcharm.protectedBranches": ["main", "release/*"],
  "gitcharm.branchNameModels": ["feature/", "bugfix/"],
  "gitcharm.projectColors": {
    "api": "#ff6b6b",
    "web": "#4ec9b0"
  }
}

🌐 Languages

GitCharm follows VS Code's display language: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 简体中文, 繁體中文. Translations are welcome — see Localization.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, the development workflow, and how to report bugs or request features.

🙏 Acknowledgements

GitCharm is built on simple-git, React, Zustand, TanStack Virtual, Prism.js, Codicons and Material Icon Theme. Thanks also to everyone who opens issues, submits pull requests, and provides feedback.

📄 License

Distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.