Visual Studio, when used with TFS (Team Foundation Server), has this feature called “Annotate”. You get to it by right clicking somewhere in the code, then selecting Source, then Annotate.

Doing so shows you who made changes, when those changes were made, and what changeset those changes belong to, for the specific line of code you are looking at. It's pretty helpful especially when you're trying to understand the context or history of a specific line of code.

I've been looking for the same feature in Visual Studio Code. Unfortunately, this feature doesn't exist when using Git with Visual Studio Code. But, you can install an extension called Gitlens that does the same thing and then some.

And just to clarify, there is no “Annotate” command/feature in Git. But there is a corresponding one called git-blame.

Tags: #VisualStudioCode #Extensions #Git

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