14-May-2020 VS Code - Commit Signing & Issues

Table of Contents

• VS Code
  • Commit signing
  • GitHub issue integration
    • Create issues from comments
    • Issues bar

VS Code

Yesterday I switched from Atom to VS Code, this was a good move. The Git and GitHub integration is excellent, much better than I remembered. I prefer it to the equivalent Atom functionality.

Commit signing

I really like Git's commit signing feature, and seeing the green "verified" badges in the GitHub history.

Commit signing works great from the command line, but it never worked for me in Atom. Glad to see it works out of the box in VS Code.

GitHub issue integration

VS Code's integration with GitHub Issues is really nice.

It's not perfect, e.g. note the duplicate issues, but I like it a lot.

Create issues from comments

Creating an issue is pretty cool, using ctrl+. to trigger the code action.

Clicking on the Create GitHub Issue pop-up shows a confirmation dialogue.

Issues bar

The issues bar looks very useful:

I normally use the hub issue command for updating and querying issues.

DevDiary>hub issue
      #6  Bio page should link to the current home & archive pages   bug 
      #5  Spurious 'on' in page footer   bug 
      #4  All pages should include a standard footer linking to GitHub
 
DevDiary>

Looks like I'll have less need for hub issue, though it's still handy for scripting.

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