Description
Background
While developing my software I want to revert a historic commit but because there has been so many changes I need to do this manually so I use Open All Changes to see the changes and then manually apply the changes to the working tree.
I need more than the context lines allow to see what is going on in my code so i just want to unhide all lines using diffEditor.hideUnchangedRegions.enabled.
I am aware I can change the context lines shown above and below, and these values work as expected, but some times you just want that sweet toggle you can bind to a key combination.
The Issue
diffEditor.hideUnchangedRegions.enabled works for normal VSCode diff compares but this is ignored when I use Open All Changes or Open All Changes with Working Tree through GitLens.
It should be notes that on the diff compare it has multiple files but I assume this is the same for a single file diff compare done through GitLens.
**Specific Instructions
- Open Vscode Settings
- find
diffEditor.hideUnchangedRegions.enabled and untick it
- Navigate to the GitLens panel
- Find the required commit (filtering is optional)
- Click on the
Open All Changes icon
- view the diff
The diff still has hidden lines
Additional
I am posting this as a bug because I don't think it is a feature when the GitLens diff editor already uses a lot of the VSCode diff editor settings.
GitLens Version
18.3.0
VS Code Version
Version: 1.132.0 (user setup)
Commit: df53daabb18cd157bdb08c7f01c34df936cf12f4
Date: 2026-08-04T15:30:20Z
Electron: 42.7.1
ElectronBuildId: 14760073
Chromium: 148.0.7778.280
Node.js: 24.18.0
V8: 14.8.178.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
Git Version
git version 2.55.0.windows.3
Logs, Screenshots, Screen Captures, etc
diffEditor.hideUnchangedRegions.enabled set to false
Open All Changes button
A an example diff compare opened from Open All Changes
You can see the hidden lines
Description
Background
While developing my software I want to revert a historic commit but because there has been so many changes I need to do this manually so I use
Open All Changesto see the changes and then manually apply the changes to the working tree.I need more than the context lines allow to see what is going on in my code so i just want to unhide all lines using
diffEditor.hideUnchangedRegions.enabled.I am aware I can change the context lines shown above and below, and these values work as expected, but some times you just want that sweet toggle you can bind to a key combination.
The Issue
diffEditor.hideUnchangedRegions.enabledworks for normal VSCode diff compares but this is ignored when I useOpen All ChangesorOpen All Changes with Working Treethrough GitLens.It should be notes that on the diff compare it has multiple files but I assume this is the same for a single file diff compare done through GitLens.
**Specific Instructions
diffEditor.hideUnchangedRegions.enabledand untick itOpen All ChangesiconThe diff still has hidden lines
Additional
I am posting this as a bug because I don't think it is a feature when the GitLens diff editor already uses a lot of the VSCode diff editor settings.
GitLens Version
18.3.0
VS Code Version
Version: 1.132.0 (user setup)
Commit: df53daabb18cd157bdb08c7f01c34df936cf12f4
Date: 2026-08-04T15:30:20Z
Electron: 42.7.1
ElectronBuildId: 14760073
Chromium: 148.0.7778.280
Node.js: 24.18.0
V8: 14.8.178.38-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
Git Version
git version 2.55.0.windows.3
Logs, Screenshots, Screen Captures, etc
diffEditor.hideUnchangedRegions.enabledset to falseOpen All ChangesbuttonA an example diff compare opened from
Open All ChangesYou can see the hidden lines