You probably know that Visual Studio Code has some great built-in tools for working with GIT in source control. But did you know that there are some amazing extensions out there to help supercharge your workflow with GitHub inside of VS Code? Without wasting much time, let’s see what the best GIT extensions are that you can use in the future.

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1. Git History

Git History is one of the most downloaded extensions by developers (almost 2.8 million downloads). It’s because of the bunch of functionalities that this extension provides to make our life easier. You can simply download the extension by searching the Git History at the extensions tab. Once the extension is installed, what you have to do is right-click on one of the lines and check out the bunch of useful options they have given.

Figure 1. Download Git History

Features of Git History

• View the Git history and search history log
• View previous file updates
• View the history of a file, line, branches, and authors
• Compare branches, commits, and files across commits
• Create branches, create tags, reset commits, merge branches, and rebase

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