Git Keizu is a focused Git history graph for VS Code. Explore branches, commits, stashes, tags, and uncommitted changes in one graph. Run common Git actions and manage worktrees without opening a terminal.
Git Keizu is an actively maintained fork of Git Graph, intentionally focused on the core graph experience.
Japanese UI supported / 日本語UI対応
Set VS Code's display language to Japanese and the entire Git Keizu interface — commands, settings, menus, dialogs, error messages, and dates — switches to Japanese automatically. No extra configuration required.
VS Codeの表示言語を日本語に設定するだけで、コマンド、設定項目、メニュー、ダイアログ、エラーメッセージ、日付表示まで含めて、Git Keizuのインターフェース全体が自動的に日本語へ切り替わります。追加の設定は不要です。
Open a folder or workspace that contains a Git repository. On first use, the Git Keizu Status Bar item may not be visible yet. Open the graph using either of these methods:
- Source Control: Open VS Code's built-in Source Control view and click the Git Keizu graph button in the view title.
- Command Palette: Run
Git Keizu: View Git Keizu (git log).
After Git Keizu has been activated and detects a repository, the Status Bar item appears by default and provides a quick way to reopen the graph.
See branches, commits, tags, stash entries, and uncommitted changes together in one graph.
- Filter the graph by branch or author, and search commit messages with regex and case-sensitive modes.
- Choose date, topological, or author-date ordering. Merge commits and non-ancestor commits can be visually muted.
- Combined local and remote labels, automatic commit loading, and restored scroll position keep long histories manageable.
Select a commit to inspect its files and diffs, or Ctrl/Cmd+click a second commit to compare the two.
- Switch commit files between a folder tree and a flat list.
- Open working-tree files directly from commit details; renamed files are resolved through Git rename tracking.
- Navigate commits with the keyboard, follow parent links, and keep comparison state when switching tabs.
Right-click commits, branches, tags, stash entries, or uncommitted changes to access the actions available for that item.
- Checkout, cherry-pick, merge, rebase, create branches, manage tags, and apply or pop stashes.
- Pull and push the current branch, including choosing an upstream when one has not been configured. Fetch automatically prunes stale remote-tracking references.
- Common actions appear first, while less-used and destructive actions are grouped under More…. Confirmation dialogs expose relevant Git options before execution.
- When a branch deletion is rejected because Git could not confirm the branch is fully merged, the error dialog explains why — including after squash merges and rebases — and what to check before using Force Delete, with the original Git output preserved in a collapsible section.
Create and manage Git worktrees without leaving the graph.
- Create a worktree from a branch or any commit, with a suggested path derived from the branch name.
- Open a worktree in VS Code or a terminal, reveal it in the file manager, copy its path, or remove it.
- Linked and detached-HEAD worktrees remain visible in the graph, including detached commits outside the loaded history.
- Recent context-menu actions are remembered per repository, making repeated workflows quicker.
- Git operations refresh the graph in the background without blanking the view or discarding its state.
- Multiple repositories, configurable keyboard shortcuts, optional avatars, graph colours, date formats, and dialog defaults are supported.
- Git 2.32 or later is required. Viewing the changes contained in a stash entry uses
git stash show -u, whose-u(--include-untracked) option was added in Git 2.32. Older Git versions are not supported.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
Git Keizu: View Git Keizu (git log) |
Open the Git Keizu graph view |
Git Keizu: Clear Avatar Cache |
Clear all cached commit author avatars |
All settings are under the git-keizu.* namespace.
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
dateFormat |
Date & Time |
Date format: Date & Time, Date Only, or Relative |
dateType |
Author Date |
Date type: Author Date or Commit Date |
fetchAvatars |
false |
Fetch commit author avatars from GitHub, GitLab, or Gravatar |
graphColours |
(12 colours) | Colours used on the graph (HEX, RGB, or RGBA array) |
graphStyle |
rounded |
Graph line style: rounded or angular |
initialLoadCommits |
300 |
Number of commits to initially load |
loadMoreCommits |
100 |
Number of additional commits to load at a time |
loadMoreCommitsAutomatically |
true |
Automatically load more commits when scrolling to the bottom |
openNewTabEditorGroup |
Active |
Editor group for "Open File" in commit details: Active, Beside, One–Nine |
maxDepthOfRepoSearch |
0 |
Maximum depth of subfolders to search for repositories |
showCurrentBranchByDefault |
false |
Show only the current branch when the graph is opened |
showStatusBarItem |
true |
Show a Status Bar item to open Git Keizu |
menu.showRecentActions |
true |
Show a "Recent" section at the top of context menus when recent actions are available |
showUncommittedChanges |
true |
Show uncommitted changes row in the graph |
tabIconColourTheme |
colour |
Tab icon theme: colour or grey |
sourceCodeProviderIntegrationLocation |
Inline |
SCM title bar button position: Inline or More Actions |
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
...Find |
CTRL/CMD + F |
Keyboard shortcut for Find (UNASSIGNED to disable) |
...Refresh |
CTRL/CMD + R |
Keyboard shortcut for Refresh (UNASSIGNED to disable) |
...ScrollToHead |
CTRL/CMD + H |
Keyboard shortcut for Scroll to HEAD (UNASSIGNED to disable) |
...ScrollToStash |
CTRL/CMD + S |
Keyboard shortcut for Scroll to Stash (UNASSIGNED to disable) |
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
dialog.merge.noFastForward |
true |
Default state of "Create a new commit even if fast-forward is possible" (Merge) |
dialog.merge.squashCommits |
false |
Default state of "Squash Commits" checkbox (Merge) |
dialog.merge.noCommit |
false |
Default state of "No Commit" checkbox (Merge) |
dialog.cherryPick.recordOrigin |
false |
Default state of "Record Origin" checkbox (Cherry-pick) |
dialog.cherryPick.noCommit |
false |
Default state of "No Commit" checkbox (Cherry-pick) |
dialog.stashUncommittedChanges.includeUntracked |
false |
Default state of "Include Untracked" checkbox (Stash Uncommitted Changes) |
dialog.createWorktree.openTerminal |
true |
Default state of "Open Terminal" checkbox (Create Worktree) |
dialog.removeWorktree.deleteBranch |
true |
Default state of "Also delete branch" checkbox (Remove Worktree) |
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
repository.commits.order |
date |
Commit sort order: date (committer date), topo (topological, same-branch consecutive), or author-date |
Per-repository override is available via the table header right-click context menu.
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
...mergeCommits |
true |
Display merge commits with reduced opacity |
...commitsThatAreNotAncestorsOfHead |
false |
Display non-ancestor-of-HEAD commits with reduced opacity |
Git Keizu applies the following safeguards around Git execution, repository access, avatar requests, and webview content:
- Shell injection eliminated — all git commands use
child_process.spawn()exclusively;exec()has been removed entirely - Git binary resolution — the configured
git.path(a single path or, as VS Code allows, a list of candidate paths) is verified by running each candidate with--versionand only the first working executable is adopted; unusable values fall back togiton the PATH - Commit hash validation — every operation that accepts a commit hash validates the format before passing it to git
- Repository path validation — all messages from the webview are checked against the registered repository list, preventing commands from running against arbitrary directories
- Path traversal prevention — file path arguments are checked for
..sequences - SSRF protection — avatar fetch requests are restricted to an allowlist of known domains (GitHub, GitLab, Gravatar)
- XSS fixes — commit parent hashes, avatar data URIs, and other dynamic values are properly HTML-escaped before insertion into the webview
Bug reports and feedback via GitHub Issues are welcome. This is a personal project maintained in spare time — responses and fixes are not guaranteed, but reports are appreciated.
The codebase uses async/await throughout, targets ES2020, and includes a Vitest test suite with oxlint and oxfmt for consistent style.
Pull requests are welcome as well. Fork the repository and open a pull request against main. CI runs pnpm run format, pnpm run lint, pnpm run typecheck, and pnpm run test:ci, so please confirm those pass locally first. For anything larger than a small fix, opening an issue first helps avoid wasted effort.
Supported build environments are Linux, macOS, and WSL. The build scripts rely on Unix shell commands (such as rm and cp), so building on a native Windows shell is not supported — on Windows, please develop inside WSL.
A big thank you to the original author, mhutchie, for creating this amazing extension.
Thanks also to asispts for carrying the project forward — stripping it down to the essentials and keeping it focused on what matters most.
MIT — see LICENSE.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by the original Git Graph or neo-git-graph projects.