Open Changes with Revision not working with a commit id

[TrevorBenson]

Type: Bug

When opening the Open Changes menu it provides three options.

1. Open changes with previous version
2. Open changes with Revision
3. Open changes with Branch or Tag

Selecting Open changes with Revision

The window pops up and says in the prompt Choose a commit to compare with, and below that it has a list of options for Choose a Branch or Tag, Choose a Stash, and 2 commits.

When pasting a commit into the prompt, it does not do anything. When selecting a branch or tag from the dropdown below the prompt, it changes, and entering the first part of a tag starts to filter a large list of known tags.

Selecting Open changes with Branch or Tag

The window pops up and says in the prompt Choose a branch or tag to compare with (or enter a reference using #) , and below that has a large list of branches to select from.

When pasting a commit into the prompt (with or without pretending #) it shows the commit message, date of the commit, and commit short id/hash.

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I've marked this Visual Studio Code because I believe these are default menus, but have included enabled extensions in case something installed actually provides or modifies this functionality in some way.

VS Code version: Code 1.80.0 (660393deaaa6d1996740ff4880f1bad43768c814, 2023-07-04T13:39:48.236Z) OS version: Linux x64 6.3.12-200.fc38.x86_64 Modes:

System Info

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canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: disabled_software
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|1, 2, 2| |Memory (System)|30.98GB (17.37GB free)| |Process Argv|--unity-launch --crash-reporter-id 580bece0-b191-4d8a-b8bf-253607cede2d| |Screen Reader|no| |VM|0%| |DESKTOP_SESSION|gnome| |XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP|GNOME| |XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP|gnome| |XDG_SESSION_TYPE|x11|

Extensions (45)

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A/B Experiments

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[vscodenpa]

Thanks for creating this issue! It looks like you may be using an old version of VS Code, the latest stable release is 1.80.1. Please try upgrading to the latest version and checking whether this issue remains.

Happy Coding!

[TrevorBenson]

I've updated VS Code to version 1.80.1 and the behavior is identical, the Open Changes with Revision menu does not work with a commit hash, while the Open Changes with Branch or Tag does work with a commit hash.

[TrevorBenson]

The Command Pallete make me suspect the functionality actually comes from a github extensions. I have a few github related extensions which may be interacting with each other. I will try to test a fresh vscode with individual extensions to see which one seems to be causing the behavior.

[gjsjohnmurray]

The Start Extension Bisect command can help you.

[lszomoru]

/gifPlease

[vscodenpa]

Thanks for reporting this issue! Unfortunately, it's hard for us to understand what issue you're seeing. Please help us out by providing a screen recording showing exactly what isn't working as expected. While we can work with most standard formats, .gif files are preferred as they are displayed inline on GitHub. You may find https://gifcap.dev helpful as a browser-based gif recording tool.

If the issue depends on keyboard input, you can help us by enabling screencast mode for the recording (Developer: Toggle Screencast Mode in the command palette). Lastly, please attach this file via the GitHub web interface as emailed responses will strip files out from the issue.

Happy coding!

[TrevorBenson]

I'm going to mark this issue as closed. I tried both flatpak and codespaces and the behavior was to open the changes of the current file immediately. I also tried adding one plugin at a time, but none made a new menu appear.

I reverted to my main vscode program which has all the same plugins enabled as when originally reported. The menu's no longer appear when I select Git: Open Changes, just the current changes to the file.

Running details:

Version: 1.81.1
Commit: 6c3e3dba23e8fadc360aed75ce363ba185c49794
Date: 2023-08-09T22:18:39.991Z
Electron: 22.3.18
ElectronBuildId: 22689846
Chromium: 108.0.5359.215
Node.js: 16.17.1
V8: 10.8.168.25-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64

Even though the behavior was originally consistent after both restarting and restoring default settings, I am no longer able to reproduce it in v1.81.1 with whatever differences in plugin versions running currently, so will now close out this issue.