I only used it for the automatic blame behind the cursor, but I just learned that that is built-in to VS Code (something like “toggle blame decorator”). The built-in one is faster too.
As an adjustment, for now, I'm sticking with the built-in functionality but enabling only the status bar display, whose template I modified to include the commit message and date.
There's no secret sauce, all these variables are shown right above the input.
Eventually someone will fork it just to remove the ads
Maybe vscode has these built-in by now? Using the Gitless fork so not that annoying.
Yes, the blame feature is built-in now, with pop-up and all.
Now that VS Code has more of those features built in and there are alternatives the first mover advantage keeps the extension sticky because people don't feel pressure to learn about the built-in features or because people don't want to learn about alternative extensions because "the tool I already know is annoying but is fine".