👍🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍
When contributing to this project, please first discuss the changes you wish to make via an issue before making changes.
Please note the Code of Conduct document, please follow it in all your interactions with this project.
Unsure where to begin contributing? You can start by looking through the help-wanted
issues.
git clone https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens.git
Prerequisites
From a terminal, where you have cloned the repository, execute the following command to install the required dependencies:
pnpm install
From a terminal, where you have cloned the repository, execute the following command to re-build the project from scratch:
pnpm run rebuild
👉 NOTE! This will run a complete rebuild of the project.
Or to just run a quick build, use:
pnpm run build
During development you can use a watcher to make builds on changes quick and easy. From a terminal, where you have cloned the repository, execute the following command:
pnpm run watch
Or use the provided watch
task in VS Code, execute the following from the command palette (be sure there is no >
at the start):
task watch
This will first do an initial full build and then watch for file changes, compiling those changes incrementally, enabling a fast, iterative coding experience.
👉 Tip! You can press CMD+SHIFT+B (CTRL+SHIFT+B on Windows, Linux) to start the watch task.
👉 Tip! You don't need to stop and restart the development version of Code after each change. You can just execute Reload Window
from the command palette.
This project uses prettier for code formatting. You can run prettier across the code by calling pnpm run pretty
from a terminal.
To format the code as you make changes you can install the Prettier - Code formatter extension.
Add the following to your User Settings to run prettier:
"editor.formatOnSave": true,
This project uses ESLint for code linting. You can run ESLint across the code by calling pnpm run lint
from a terminal. Warnings from ESLint show up in the Errors and Warnings
quick box and you can navigate to them from inside VS Code.
To lint the code as you make changes you can install the ESLint extension.
To generate a production bundle (without packaging) run the following from a terminal:
pnpm run bundle
To generate a VSIX (installation package) run the following from a terminal:
pnpm run package
- Open the
vscode-gitlens
folder - Ensure the required dependencies are installed
- Choose the
Watch & Run
launch configuration from the launch dropdown in the Run and Debug viewlet and pressF5
- A new VS Code "Extension Development Host" window will open with the extension loaded and ready for debugging
- If the "Extension Development Host" window opened without a folder/workspace with a repository (required for most GitLens functionality), you will need to open one and then stop and restart the debug session
In order to see any code changes reflected in the "Extension Development Host" window, you will need to restart the debug session, e.g. using the "Restart" button in the debug toolbar or by pressing [Ctrl|Cmd]+Shift+F5
. Although, if the code changes are purely within a webview, you can refresh the webview by clicking the refresh button in the toolbar associated with the webview.
Note: If you see a pop-up with a message similar to "The task cannot be tracked. Make sure to have a problem matcher defined.", you will need to install the TypeScript + Webpack Problem Matchers extension.
- Open the
vscode-gitlens
folder - Ensure the required dependencies are installed
- Choose the
Watch & Run (web)
launch configuration from the launch dropdown in the Run and Debug viewlet and pressF5
- A new VS Code "Extension Development Host" window will open with the extension loaded and ready for debugging
- If the "Extension Development Host" window opened without a folder/workspace with a repository (required for most GitLens functionality), you will need to open one and then stop and restart the debug session
In order to see any code changes reflected in the "Extension Development Host" window, you will need to restart the debug session, e.g. using the "Restart" button in the debug toolbar or by pressing [Ctrl|Cmd]+Shift+F5
. Although, if the code changes are purely within a webview, you can refresh the webview by clicking the refresh button in the toolbar associated with the webview.
- Open the
vscode-gitlens
folder - Ensure the required dependencies are installed
- Run the
build
orwatch
task from the command palette - Run the
Run (local web)
task from the command palette
- Open the
vscode-gitlens
folder - Ensure the required dependencies are installed
- Run the
build
orwatch
task from the command palette - Run the
Run (vscode.dev)
task from the command palette
Please follow all the instructions in the PR template.
This repository contains both OSS-licensed and non-OSS-licensed files. All files in or under any directory named "plus" fall under LICENSE.plus. The remaining files fall under LICENSE, the MIT license.
If a pull request is submitted which contains changes to files in or under any directory named "plus", then you agree that GitKraken and/or its licensors (as applicable) retain all right, title and interest in and to all such modifications and/or patches.
The Change Log is updated manually and an entry should be added for each change. Changes are grouped in lists by added
, changed
, removed
, or fixed
.
Entries should be written in future tense:
- Be sure to give yourself much deserved credit by adding your name and user in the entry
Added
- Adds awesome feature — closes #<issue> thanks to PR #<pr> by Your Name (@<your-github-username>)
Changed
- Changes or improves an existing feature — closes #<issue> thanks to PR #<pr> by Your Name (@<your-github-username>)
Fixed
- Fixes #<issue> a bug or regression — thanks to PR #<pr> by Your Name (@<your-github-username>)
If this is your first contribution to GitLens, please give yourself credit by adding yourself to the Contributors
section of the README in the following format:
Your Name ([@<your-github-username>](https://github.com/<your-github-username>)) — [contributions](https://github.com/gitkraken/vscode-gitlens/commits?author=<your-github-username>)
GitLens version changes are bucketed into two types:
minor
: normal release (new features, enhancements and fixes)patch
: hotfix release (just fixes)
Note: major
version bumps are only considered for more special circumstances.
Before publishing a new release, do the following:
- Create a GitHub milestone for any potential patch releases, named
{major}.{minor}-patch
with a description ofWork intended for any patch releases before the {major}.{minor} release
- Create a GitHub milestone for the next release,
{major}.{minor+1}
with a description ofWork intended for the {release-month} {release-year} release
and a set the appropriate due date - Ensure all items in the
{major}.{minor}
GitHub milestone are closed and verified or moved into one of the above milestones - Close the
{major}.{minor}
and{major}.{minor-1}-patch
GitHub milestones
Then, use the prep-release script to prepare a new release. The script updates the package.json and CHANGELOG.md appropriately, commits the changes as Bumps to v{major}.{minor}.{patch}
, and creates a v{major}.{minor}.{patch}
tag which when pushed will trigger the CI to publish a release.
- Ensure you are on the
main
branch and have a clean working tree - Ensure the CHANGELOG.md has been updated with the release notes
- Run
pnpm run prep-release
and enter the desired{major}.{minor}.{patch}
version when prompted - Review the
Bumps to v{major}.{minor}.{patch}
commit - Run
git push --follow-tags
to push the commit and tag
Pushing the v{major}.{minor}.{patch}
tag will trigger the Publish Stable workflow to automatically package the extension, create a GitHub release, and deploy it to the VS Marketplace.
If the action fails and retries are unsuccessful, the VSIX can be built locally with pnpm run package
and uploaded manually to the marketplace. A GitHub release can also be created manually using v{major}.{minor}.{patch}
as the title and the notes from the CHANGELOG.md with the VSIX attached.
Before publishing a new release, do the following:
- Ensure all items in the
{major}.{minor}-patch
GitHub milestone are closed and verified - Create, if needed, a
release/{major}.{minor}
branch from the latestv{major}.{minor}.{patch}
tag - Cherry-pick the desired commits from
main
into therelease/{major}.{minor}
branch - Follow steps 2-5 in Preparing a Normal Release above
- Manually update the CHANGELOG.md on
main
with the patch release notes
Note: All patch releases for the same {major}.{minor}
version use the same release/{major}.{minor}
branch
The Publish Pre-release workflow is automatically run every AM unless no new changes have been committed to main
. This workflow can also be manually triggered by running the Publish Pre-release
workflow from the Actions tab, no more than once per hour (because of the versioning scheme).
The Publish Insiders workflow is no longer available and was replaced with the pre-release edition.
To add new icons to the GL Icons font follow the steps below:
-
Add new SVG icons to the
images/icons
folder -
Append entries for the new icons to the end of the
images/icons/template/mapping.json
file- Entries should be in the format of
<icon-file-name-without-extension>: <increment-last-number>
- Entries should be in the format of
-
Optimize and build the icons by running the following from a terminal:
pnpm run icons:svgo pnpm run build:icons
Once you've finshed copy the new glicons.woff2?<uuid>
URL from src/webviews/apps/shared/glicons.scss
and search and replace the old references with the new one.