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The #1 most installed Git extension for VS Code. Supercharge Git and unlock untapped knowledge within your repo to better understand, write, and review code. https://linktr.ee/gitkraken

Have you updated to GitLens 18.3 yet? This release makes AI workflows more capable, conflict resolution smarter, and the Commit Graph even more powerful, plus a completely redesigned Settings experience. Here’s what’s new 🧵👇

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Merge conflicts, meet your match. GitLens 18.3 is out: AI works through your conflicted files in parallel, shows per-file confidence, and lets you push back on any resolution before it touches your tree. The stall that used to eat your afternoon now takes minutes. www.gitkraken.com/gitlens

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Generating code was never the hard part. Flow is. Wyatt Baggett ran AI agents overnight, woke up to 17 branches, and had to figure out what actually shipped vs. what just looked done. Velocity without visibility isn't progress. It's just chaos with a head start. medium.com/@wyattbagget...

My AI Agents Made 17 Branches While I Slept - Here’s How I Cleaned It Up in 90 Seconds

So here’s the thing nobody warns you about when you start running AI coding agents: they don’t make one branch. They make seventeen.

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Your repo after a few weeks of coding agents: 🌿 branches everywhere 🤖 agents everywhere 📂 worktrees everywhere 😵 context nowhere GitLens 18 is our answer to that. The Commit Graph became a workbench for parallel development. 🧵

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GitLens hit a milestone that shows what happens when you solve real problems for developers. We started with a simple idea: make Git history visual, intuitive, and actually useful inside VS Code. Eight years later, developers have spoken. Thanks for trusting us with your Git workflow. 🙌

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54%+ of developers now code with Git inside their editor. GitLens brings inline blame, file history, and powerful visualizations directly into VS Code. No context switching. Just flow.

Your AI assistant doesn't actually understand Git. It can't manage history, branches, commits, or PRs reliably. GitLens 17.5 changes that with GitKraken MCP. Here's what that means for your workflow 🧵

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GitLens wasn’t born in a boardroom. It started as a late-night side project to solve one dev’s biggest Git pain. Now? It’s one of the most popular VS Code extensions ever. Hear GitLens creator Eric Amodio tell the origin story 🎥https://youtu.be/B-nYz80puwU

🚀 GitLens 16.1 is here! Bringing powerful new enhancements like Merge Target Status, Proactive Conflict Detection and Gemini model support to supercharge your developer workflow. Here's a 🧵 on what's new in this release:

GitLens 16.1 Release Notes