Always-on file annotations

[Nicholas-Autio-Mitchell]

This is a follow-up to a previously posted (solved) issue: #1988

Summary: the git blame heat-map (rendered in the left git diff gutter) is not shown all the time -- it would be great to have a setting to ensure it is "aways on".

Currently, when opening a new VScode window or just a new repo, the blame heat-map must be toggled on while focus is on an open file (this works fine). Opening another file tracked by git, we see the blame heat-map appear after a few seonds (also works as expected). However if I close all git-tracked files e.g. whilst working on other files that are not yet git-tracked, and then open any git-tracked file, the blame heat-maps do not show up. They must be toggled on once again.

The setting I use for toggling is gitlens.toggleFileHeatmap, with a keybinding.

@eamodio for viz

[eamodio]

Can you please verify this fix in tomorrow's (v2024.01.26xx) pre-release edition of GitLens? Thank you so much!

You can switch to the pre-release edition of GitLens, by clicking on the "Switch to Pre-Release version of this extension" from the Extensions view.

[Nicholas-Autio-Mitchell]

Tested this in pre-release with version v2024.1.2604

Opening files, toggling gutter-blame to be active, then closing all files and re-opening: gutter-blame is still active. I would say this solves the issues as originally described 👍

One thing I have noticed now: when in editorFocus (cursor is active in an editor pane), with the gutter-blame active -- if I press Esc, the gutter-blame is deactivated. I am not sure by which mechanism this happens, but it requires re-toggling gutter-blame to be on and so breaks the "always on" gutter-blame I was hoping for.

@eamodio - I will let you decide if this is worth investigating/fixing; totally realise I am being super nit-picky here!

[eamodio]

@Nicholas-Autio-Mitchell there is a relatively new setting gitlens.fileAnnotations.dismissOnEscape which can be disabled to turn off the ESC behavior.

I am wondering if that behavior should be the "default" if you set the annotation to be for the window (rather than per-file), but I'm not sure on that. I'd love to hear from you and others on that.

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