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Installing Prereleases (vsix)

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Eric Amodio edited this page Dec 19, 2017 · 1 revision

Prerelease versions of GitLens are available as VSIXs here: https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/releases. If you wish to install a prerelease, please follow these steps:

Installing a prerelease version of GitLens

First, find the release that you wish to install at https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens/releases. Then, download the gitlen-*.vsix file for that release to your machine. Use the following steps to install the .vsix into Visual Studio Code.

  1. Open Visual Studio Code and select View->Extensions from the menu to display the Extensions pane.
  2. Click the ... at the top-right corner of the Extensions pane and select "Install from VSIX..." on the menu that appears.
  3. Locate the .vsix file you download and click "Open".
  4. Visual Studio Code will prompt you to restart to enable the extension. Click "Restart" to confirm.
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