Git Branch Stats

Git branch statistics inside your IDE — author activity, commit timeline charts, branch switching, and branch comparison in a themed, localizable tool window.

 

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Overview

Git Branch Stats adds a dockable tool window to your IDE that gives you an at-a-glance view of the Git repository: who committed what, how branches differ, and quick branch switching — without leaving the IDE.

Available for Visual Studio 2022 and JetBrains Rider 2025.3+.

Screenshots

Visual Studio

Statistics, branch switching & comparison

Settings tab (language & custom translations)

JetBrains Rider

Statistics, commit timeline chart & branch comparison

Settings tab (language & custom translations)

Features

• Author statistics — commits, files changed, and lines added/deleted per author for the current branch.
• Commit timeline chart (Rider) — smooth day-by-day chart showing who committed when, with per-author colors.
• Branch switching — check out any local branch directly from the tool window.
• Branch comparison — commits ahead/behind, changed files, insertions and deletions, plus the list of unique commits between two branches.
• Localization — switch the interface between English and Russian, or create your own translation right in the Settings tab. Untranslated text automatically falls back to English.
• Theme-aware — the UI follows your active IDE theme (Light / Dark).

Installation

Visual Studio

Install from the Visual Studio Marketplace, or download GitBranchStats.vsix from the latest release and double-click it to install.

Requirements: Visual Studio 2022 or newer · A solution in a Git repository

JetBrains Rider

Install from the JetBrains Marketplace: Settings → Plugins → Marketplace → search Git Branch Stats → Install.

Or install manually: download the .zip from Releases and use Settings → Plugins → ⚙ → Install Plugin from Disk.

Requirements: JetBrains Rider 2025.3 or newer · A project in a Git repository

Usage

1. Open a project/solution that lives in a Git repository.
2. Open the tool window:
   • Visual Studio: View → Git Branch Stats
   • Rider: click the Git Branch Stats icon in the right-side tool window stripe
3. The window reads the repository and shows author statistics automatically.
4. Use the Settings tab to change the language or add a custom translation.

Custom translations

In the Settings tab you get a table of every English string with a field for your translation. Save it with a name and it becomes a new selectable language. Anything you leave blank stays in English.

Building from source

Visual Studio plugin

.\build.ps1                       # Release build → Build\GitBranchStats.vsix
.\build.ps1 -Configuration Debug  # Debug build

Rider plugin

cd RiderGitStats
.\build.ps1                       # Release build → Build\RiderGitStats-x.x.x.zip
.\build.ps1 -Task runIde          # Launch sandbox Rider with plugin loaded

Project structure

Path	Description
GitBranchStats/	Visual Studio VSIX extension (C#, WPF, LibGit2Sharp)
RiderGitStats/	JetBrains Rider plugin (Kotlin, IntelliJ Platform SDK)
screenshoot/	Screenshots used in this README