Vscode-gitlens: Add option to always show heatmap

[lajtmaN]

It would be awesome if it was possible to configure the heatmap to always be shown.

Furthermore allowing to edit while the heatmap is active.

Thanks for a great plugin! I recommended it to all my colleagues.

[eamodio]

You can enable the ability to have the heatmap always be shown via the GitLens Settings editor (run GitLens: Open Settings from the command palette).

Jump to the Gutter Heatmap settings, and set it to all files at once

Now when you turn on the heatmap, it will stay on for all files, until you turn it off (or as you mentioned edit a file).

Allowing edits while the heatmap is visible, is challenging and performance intensive, because I would constantly need to re-run blame and the heatmap calculations basically on every edit. As an alternative, while it turns off when you are editing, if you are in the all files at once mode, I think it should come back on when you save the file (or when you switch to another file). I'll consider that a bug.

[lajtmaN]

Didn't knew about that setting - thanks!

I don't know how you implemented the heatmap, but you can assume that each changed line is 0 days old, and use that to color the heatmap - no need to run blame on the entire file just for that :)

[tristan957]

Can the heatmap and the git status map not exist at the same time? When I toggle the heat map on, and start to type it goes away.

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