Git - display incoming/outgoing commits in the Source Control view container

[lszomoru]

The latest Insiders release contains a new "Source Control Sync" experimental view that can be enabled by toggling the scm.experimental.showSyncView setting. This new view displays incoming/outgoing changes for the current branch compared to its upstream, or the default branch. Please give it a try and let me know what you think. Over the coming weeks we will continue to iterate on this view based on user feedback.

[tusharsnx]

Thanks for adding this feature right inside Vscode 😄 I've been using Gitlens just to have this for a while now.

I think the view only shows changes/commits for the current branch. I'd appreciate if we could have a drop down menu for selecting the branch also, so it can show the changes from other branches as well, and not having to checkout branches for the changes to show. The selected branch could be remembered for the entire session, and resets after closing/reopening Vscode.

[tusharsnx]

As a contributor, many people work on a cloned repo, that has multiple tracking branches to a remote branch on that repo. But, in most cases we want to compare against the original repo's main (or any branch for that matter) where this change will be merged ultimately. Giving an optional "compare against" (along with 'Incoming Changes', 'Outgoing Changes') list item in the view would help in this case.

Current workaround is to use git branch -u original/main local-branch which then makes the 'Outgoing Changes' compare against original/main. However, this will make git push/pull more verbose as you'd have to use cloned remote name with the command every time.