We’re Listening – Help Us Make GitLens Even Better

[SpaceMerlin33]

At GitLens, we’re dedicated to continuously improving your experience, and your feedback is key to shaping the future of our free and Pro features. Whether it’s frustrations, complaints, or just something you feel we should change, we want to hear directly from you.

Communicate directly with our engineering team – we’re listening, share your thoughts with us here.

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[dEhiN]

It would be nice to have the option to start a GitLens Pro Trial when creating an account and authorizing access to GitHub. I recently started with GitLens and, while exploring its features - including using the YouTube tutorial here - I decided to connect GitLens to my GH account. I was a little disappointed to see that, as part of the authorization, a GitLens Pro Trial was started for me, thereby giving me 7 days to try all the Pro features.

In my case, I currently only have public-facing repos, so I'm not worried about losing access to things such as the Commit Graph. However, it's precisely for this reason that I don't want to start a Pro Trial yet. I think the choice should be presented to the user when connecting GitLens to GH - would you like to start a Pro Trial now? If the user chooses no, they then still have the ability to initiate a trial at a later date, perhaps once they have a private repo they want/need to work on.

[justinrobots]

Hi @dEhiN - thanks for sharing your feedback! We recently extended the trial period for GitLens Pro from 7 to 14 days to give users more time to explore Pro features. We also periodically allow trials to be reset so you can check out Pro features again when there are updates or when the timing feels right.

We hope these changes give you plenty of flexibility to try Pro features whenever works best for you.

Appreciate your input—it's super helpful for shaping GitLens!

[dEhiN]

@justinrobots Thanks for the reply! I'm glad to hear the time has been extended. I'm working on a solo project myself but I still am finding GitLens a lot of help.

In fact, I have an older laptop that I sometimes work on, and I have deactivated most of my extensions to not tax the system. This included GitLens, but I'm used to it now from my desktop that I miss it! Especially the inline blame.