Coming to vscode (Insiders Build v1.54) is the ability to compare a file from any two commits. It will operate using the context menu items Select for Compare and Compare with Selected opening a diff editor with the Select for Compare version on the left.
Previously, you could only compare any file version to the current version. Now you could compare versions from any two commits.
See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/116361#issuecomment-783524802
See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_44.md#timeline-view for v1.44 info.
In v1.43 the Timeline view is available in the standard version via the same setting mentioned below.
We've now added paging support (via Load more above), and added a
relative timestamp over on the right. Extensions can also contribute
menu items to the Timeline view as well as to individual timeline
items. In the screenshot above, you can see that the built-in Git
extension is contributing a few new commands: Copy Commit ID and Copy
Commit Message.
The new (v1.42) Timeline view does what you want. See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_42.md#timeline-view
In this milestone, we've made progress on the new Timeline view, and
have an early preview to share. This is a unified view for visualizing
time-series events (for example, Git commits, file saves, test runs,
etc.) for a resource (file, folder). To enable the Timeline view, you
must be using the Insiders edition and then add the following setting:
"timeline.showView": true // has been removed
- use View/Open View... instead and look for
Timeline
Below you can see the Timeline view displaying the Git commit history
of a file:
In this early preview, the Timeline view shows the Git commit history
of the active document, which is currently limited to 32 items.
Selecting one of those commits will open a diff view of the changes
introduced by that commit. Extensions will also be able to contribute
their own timeline sources, which will be shown in this unified
timeline view. Eventually, you will also be able to select (filter),
which sources you'd like to see in the view.
Stay tuned, we have much more in store for this new feature. You can
follow along by subscribing to issue #84297 and by watching for issues
tagged with the 'timeline' label. And if you have ideas on other types
of information you'd like to see in this view, let us know!
My demo: Your current file is always on the left - it doesn't look like you can alter that. So it is always current file<->pick a commit diff. Not compare two different commits to each other.
