Git Integration

Code Canvas displays your local workspace changes by comparing your working files against HEAD on your current branch—the same changes you see in VS Code's source control view.

Press Shift+O to open all files with uncommitted changes onto the canvas. You can also use the floating action toolbar—when there are changed files not yet on the canvas, a button appears showing the count of unopened changed files, allowing you to add them with a single click.

Toggle between three diff modes using D or Shift+D:

Applying to Selected Files

You can toggle diff modes for individual files or multiple files:

• No files selected — toggles diff mode for all files on the canvas
• Files selected — toggles diff mode only for the selected files

This allows you to view different files in different diff modes simultaneously.

Symbols and Dependencies in Diff Modes

Warning: When using unified or split diff modes, symbol overlays are hidden and dependency edges connecting imports to exports may have their lines offset. Symbols and dependency connections display correctly only in the regular "changes" mode, which renders files similar to a standard VS Code editor window.

In the regular changes mode, you can control how changed lines are highlighted:

Toggle between these options using the "Change lines overlay" setting.

Enable word-level diffs to highlight individual changed words within modified lines rather than entire lines. You can adjust the word similarity threshold to control how sensitive the detection algorithm is when identifying word changes.

Press C to collapse unchanged lines, showing only the modified sections. You can configure the number of context lines that appear around each change.

When you make a commit, all files on the canvas are automatically refreshed to reflect the new state. Deleted files are generally removed from the canvas after a commit.

If you need to find deleted files, open the File Actions section in the toolbar (4) and use Select Deleted to select all files that have been deleted from your working tree.