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By joining GitKraken, GitLens will have the full support and resources of a rapidly growing software company that specializes in Git collaboration and productivity solutions for development teams. He is joining the GitKraken team to lead the continued development of GitLens for VS Code users, transitioning his GitLens involvement from a passion project on nights and weekends, to a full-time focus. “I am incredibly excited to join the GitKraken team to take our shared vision and accelerate it to create something truly wonderful together”.Īmodio is an innovator, leader, architect, and seasoned full-stack developer. My mission with GitLens has been to make code easier to understand by leveraging the knowledge within each Git repository and making it accessible to everyone,” said GitLens founder, Eric Amodio. “I’ve always been passionate about making software development easier, more accessible, and inclusive. GitLens unlocks the untapped knowledge within each repository to help visualize code authorship, seamlessly navigate and explore Git repositories, and gain valuable insights via powerful comparison commands. It is relied upon by developers, DevOps professionals and enterprise teams around the world, to help them better understand and work with code. Of more than 30,000 VS Code extensions, it is one of the most popular. GitLens is a free open-source Git extension for VS Code with more than 11 million active users and 71 million downloads in the past five years. He joins GitKraken and will serve as the company’s Chief Technology Officer, to lead GitLens and GitKraken’s entire suite of popular Git collaboration and productivity tools.

GitLens was created by Eric Amodio in 2016, and has since been developed and maintained nearly exclusively by Amodio in his spare time. GitKraken, creator of the world’s leading Git GUI and CLI, announced the acquisition of GitLens, the most popular Git extension for Visual Studio Code.