How to change VS Code's merge conflict layout? - visual-studio-code

I use VS CODE for version control (using git).
Every time I had a conflict, VS CODE showed me with a layout where I could see all the changes in one window:
However, with no advice, it change to a weird 3 windowed design where I can't understand anything.
Does someone know how can I go back to the first design?

Go to VS Code settings
Untick the Git: Merge Editor setting
Now you should be able to see the previous merge layout.

This feature (3 way merge editor) can be enabled by setting git.mergeEditor to true and will be enabled by default in future releases.
You can set it back to false to go back to the previous design as you want.

This new 3-way merge editor seems to have a terrible UX issue. For me simply switching to merge editor to 'false' doesn't work as below:
git.mergeEditor = false
After this editor completely stopped showing me any merge conflict line.
I have to finally do like this to revert back to original merge conflict view.
"diffEditor.codeLens": true,
"git.mergeEditor": false

Hit ctrl+shift+p to open command pallet and open the settings json by typing Preferences: Open User Settings (JSON) (or start typing 'settings' and this will come up)
In the main JSON object add "git.mergeEditor": false (insert comma beforehand if needed)
Hit ctrl+shift+p and type Developer: Reload Window to reload the windo.
The old type of merge editor should be back.. but you may need to wait a minute to get the full UI back (on my machine, the accept incoming buttons etc. didn't come back for a little).

Update 2023 in case the conflict UI has crashed/not displayed
When you rebase a file with embedded conflicts within conflicts VScode's in- file-conflict-display(blue/green UI) might glitch due to too-many git markers present, rendering merge impossible without CLI.
Apply workaround by enabling and switching to 3 way conflicts window.
enable merge editor (by searching the settings or modifying vscode config file locally)
use vscode's merge display by going to Source Control tab then clic the file with ! exclamation mark before the name of the file
solve the maximum number of conflict using the new 3 windows conflict UI (remember current and incoming are inverted in case of rebasing)
go back to normal file UI and the classic in-file-conflict-UI (green/blue) should be back online
finally git add . && git rebase --continue && :wq (vim) in case of rebase to pass to the next commit to handle.
Rule of Thumb: Remember to always create a temporary local branch of your feature before merging/rebasing your feature branch before PR. This will be used as backup to keep the design intent in mind. Then always run code(and lint) to check for obvious typos/merge artifacts (ie these git flags or unclosed loops/functions).

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And if you right-click on the modified files, there is no stash changes option.
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How to see blocks with a list of branches, stashes, etc. again.
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UPD 21.08.22: the problem was in GitLens, which I removed. Reinstalling GitLance brought back all the items I needed.
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gitLens
Latest version of vscode does not hide this. If you want to bring it back, you just need to Right Click on SOURCE CONTROL bar then pick the feature you want to display.
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The 'rust-devel' repository has 15 submodules which won't be opened automatically. You can still open each one individually by opening a file within.
Is there any way to disable this?
I didn't find a way to disable this warning. However there is a workaround: By increasing the Git: Detect Submodules Limit setting to a value higher than the number of submodules, the warning is not shown.
For example, this sets the limit to 30 via the VS Code settings.json file:
{
"git.detectSubmodulesLimit": 30
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edit settings.json:
"git.detectSubmodules": false,
"git.detectSubmodulesLimit": 9999
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// Controls whether to automatically detect git submodules.
"git.detectSubmodules": true,
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Eclipse EGit Not Opening File Comparison

I am using Eclipse (Photon 4.8.0) for a Git project. Before committing, I have been double clicking the files which appear in the unstaged changes section of the Git Staging View to remind myself of what I have changed before writing the commit message (I'm still new to Git so occasionally I will do several things before remembering that I have to commit my changes). However, double clicking on the file today merely opens the file, rather than opening the comparison view. I can still open the comparison view by right clicking the file and selecting Compare with Index but this takes more time and is frustrating.
As far as I know, I haven't changed any settings (not intentionally anyway). Can someone explain to me how to get back the behaviour I was seeing before please?
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See also EGit User Guide of the History view with the same icon.

SourceTree Won't Show All My Changes

I want to commit my works. But when I want to see what I changed and wrote them into commit message, I saw some of my changes won't show.
What is the problem?
Change The Maximum Lines And Size In Options
Tools > Options > Diff
Change Max Diff Line Count
And
Change Size Limit (Text)
I'm adding this answer as another possible cause of SourceTree "only showing the change history for a single file". This was annoying me for quite a while. No settings changes would display more than one file. THEN, I realised that the commit summary is actually a panel which slides up over the file list. ZOMG.
Make sure your filter is setup correctly:
For me the filter bugged out and while the main text said "Pending files", the dropdown had nothing selected.
Size Update For the latest ScourceTree
ScourceTree -> Preferences -> Diff -> Size limit(text)
Make sure that you copy the last version of your project, the one that you want to commit, to the directory of your repositories that you set for SourceTree. Replace the old project with the new one then open SourceTree
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On the Puush button on the top you'll se a red notification icon which means that you didn't push the last commit. Once you do that, your changes must be visible on BitBucket and SourceTree
Another possible reason:
Make sure Ignore whitespace in the diff view is not enabled.
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I am using Eclipse JUNO with the subclipse plugin.
Generally it works quite well. To commit files to the SVN repository you synchronize to check the changes you have made. Select the files you want to commit, add a comment and simply commit it.
Usually the selected files are then properly committed.
However, sometimes the selected files view in the commit window do not correspond to the actually selected files in the synchronize view. Instead it simply indicates all files in the project's file directory.
If you don't notice and commit you end up committing dozens of files/directories you do not want or need to commit.
I have tried all sorts of things to try and make it do that so that I know which chain of actions triggers it so I can avoid it but of course it never does it when you try.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might be causing it or experienced the same? It is definitely not that the selected files are no longer selected. I could clearly see that selection still being active on the left hand side synchronization view but still the commit window was showing a full file selection.
Any help/suggestion much appreciated.
I finally figured it out. Whatever file selection you do is overridden by a folder selection at a higher level => if you accidentally mark the project's main folder all files are transferred.
In the end it is Very simple and logical. The only nuisance is that the specific files you selected at a lower level are highlighted in the commit window's file selection view as well so if you look at the view superficially you get the impression only your selected files will be committed.