Hide VSCode Incoming/Outgoing changes graph

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Let's see how to hide the Git Incoming/Outgoing changes graph feature newly added to VSCode in July 2024.

Outline

One of the Git features of Visual Studio Code (VSCode) updated in July 2024, Incoming/Outgoing changes graph, is a feature that displays Git history in a graph.

After this feature was added, when opening the Source Control panel, the Source Control panel was displayed slowly.

In this blog post, I will introduce how to hide the Incoming/Outgoing changes graph of VSCode to solve the problem of the Source Control panel being displayed slowly.

Incoming/Outgoing changes graph

When you open the Source Control panel in VSCode, you will see the Incoming/Outgoing changes graph as shown like below.

VSCode source control - incoming outgoing changes graph

After this feature was added, the problem occurred that the Source Control panel was displayed slowly when opening the Source Control panel.

Hide Incoming/Outgoing changes graph

Fortunately, there is a setting in VSCode that allows you to hide the Incoming/Outgoing changes graph.

When you search for scm.showHistoryGraph in the VSCode settings, you can find SCM: Show History Graph as shown like below.

VSCode source control - show history graph setting

You can hide the Incoming/Outgoing changes graph by unchecking this setting.

Confirmation

If you uncheck this setting and open the Source Control panel again, you can confirm that the Incoming/Outgoing changes graph is hidden.

VSCode source control - hide incoming outgoing changes graph

Completed

Done! We’ve seen how to hide the Incoming/Outgoing changes graph of VSCode. If you have a problem that the Source Control panel being slow like me, try this to solve the problem.

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