Suggestions for commit-wise reviewing

[ldelossa]

Hello,

I use Gitlens to perform code reviews quite a bit. It's pretty good, but there are some rough areas which I hope to get advice about or suggest some improvements.

Currently my workflow is like this:

• use gh pr checkout {branch} to checkout the local branch
• open vscode to this branch and open gitlens
• in another terminal, do a git log of the branch to keep a list of commits
• in gitlens commit view, go to the first commit of the branch, use switch to commit and begin reviewing
• go back to terminal to get next commit, usually switch to this commit in the terminal.

This flow could become a lot better with some tweaks to Gitlens. Here are some issues

1. Switching to a commit is very useful because it allows the "Open previous changes with working file" option on each file in the commit view, and allows LSP tools to function
2. However, when you do this there is no way to keep in-view the HEAD of the branch, instead Gitlens commit view completely updates and chops off the later commits

Suggestion:

Would it be possible to add an option such as "pin commit view" which holds the commit view steady as you switch between commits in a branch? Then the following work flow could be used:

• use gh pr checkout {branch} to checkout the local branch
• open vscode to this branch and open gitlens, pin commit view.
• in gitlens commit view, go to the first commit of the branch, use switch to commit and begin reviewing
• go back to gitlens and use switch commit on next commit, repeat.