Git Blame - Plugin for Lite XL

This plugin shows "git blame" information of a file. The blame information shown will include :

• Latest commit hash
• Latest commiter Username
• Latest commit date & time
• Latest commit message

This plugin is inspired by Sublime Text's Git Blame Package.

Installation

Clone this repo into your plugins folder and rename the cloned folder to gitblame. The plugins folder is usually at LITE_XL_CONFIG_DIR/plugins (in case of linux, this is ~/.config/lite-xl/plugins).

$ git clone https://github.com/juliardi/lite-xl-gitblame.git gitblame

Configuration

There are 2 options you can select to configure this plugin.

1. Via Configuration File

You can configure this plugin by adding this snippet to LITE_XL_CONFIG_DIR/init.lua (For Linux, this usually translates to ~/.config/lite-xl/init.lua).

config.plugins.gitblame = {
  -- Text color of blame information
  text_color = {200, 140, 220},
  -- Font size of blame information
  font_size = 14,
  -- The commit message will be truncated if it is longer than this variable's value
  max_commit_message_length = 50,
  -- If debug = true, then this plugin will output a log which can be accessed
  -- from "Core : Open Log" command
  debug = false,
  -- Git executable path
  git_executable = "/usr/bin/git",
}

2. Via Settings UI

This plugin also support configuration from Settings UI.

• Open Lite-XL Settings UI.
• Navigate to Plugins tab.
• Find Git Blame settings.

Usage

• Open a file then navigate the cursor to a line
• Open command menu by pressing ctrl+shift+p
• Search Git Blame : Toggle and then press enter
• The git blame info will show under that line