I want to copy a link to github from the file/line I have open in vscode.

I found a way to copy a vscode.dev link.

You could modify that link by hand:

/github/examplecom/myproject/blob/main/mydir/myfile.go#L91-L98

to:

.go#L91-L98

... but that is not convenient.

How to copy a link to github directly?

BTW, "GitLens" is not an answer. I uninstalled that plugin because it constantly wants you to sell something.

In the past I have seen "copy as", but I do not see that any more:

I want to copy a link to github from the file/line I have open in vscode.

I found a way to copy a vscode.dev link.

You could modify that link by hand:

https://vscode.dev/github/examplecom/myproject/blob/main/mydir/myfile.go#L91-L98

to:

https://github/examplecom/myproject/blob/main/mydir/myfile.go#L91-L98

... but that is not convenient.

How to copy a link to github directly?

BTW, "GitLens" is not an answer. I uninstalled that plugin because it constantly wants you to sell something.

In the past I have seen "copy as", but I do not see that any more:

• visual-studio-code
• github

• "I found a way to copy a vscode.dev link" - How are you getting the vscode.dev link? – Raghavendra N Commented Mar 3 at 11:06
• Is this what you want: stackoverflow/a/77469819/836330 - a github permalink? If so, looks like a duplicate. – Mark Commented Mar 3 at 17:59
• @Mark nice find, but these are different questions. 63044759 doesn't specify any particular SCM or SCM hosting provider. This question here is specific to GitHub. If there wasn't that difference, I'd close as a duplicate. – starball Commented Mar 3 at 20:55
• @starball and all. I see the OP Andrew in the duplicate question clarified in a comment exactly what he was looking for: ` it gives me this link to the line github/webpack/webpack/blob/master/package.json#L2 `. It seems that adding the github tag to that question or adding his comment into the question - where it belongs - would result in this question being a clear duplicate. – Mark Commented Mar 6 at 5:28
• @Mark that question is fine as it is, remote-host-agnostic, evidently useful to many, and the top answer is remote-host-agnostic. please don't change what that question has meant to the majority of people arriving at it from search results, including those who don't use github as their remote repository provider. – starball Commented Mar 6 at 8:29

3 Answers 3

What you're requesting can only be done reliably using a VSCode extension.

Given what you're asking, it looks like the GitHub linker extension will suit your needs.

From its description:

GitHub linker allows you to select a piece of text and create a permanent link to GitHub for that piece of text. Just select the text, right click, and you'll see two new options.

• Copy a permanent link to the clipboard
• Copy a permanent link and code as markdown

The second option not only copies the link but also copies the piece of selected text properly wrapped in a markdown code block with the programming language correctly specified.

Requirements: The file must be tracked in a git repo and the current branch must be pushed to GitHub.

Alternatively, the official GitHub Pull Requests extension provides the Copy Github Permalink and Copy Github Permalink as Markdown actions, according to the associated SO answer linked above.

If you have the GitHub PR extension installed, I'm pretty sure it contributes items to the gutter context menu for this. At least, github.dev has that extension installed if I recall correctly, and it has this feature.

I'm pretty sure getting this without extensions would be difficult. The best idea I can think of right now is binding a keyboard shortcut that inserts a snippet, and using runCommands to then cut that inserted snippet. And the part I can't complete for that is how to get the user and repo name without hardcoding.

I use that extension now:

Open in GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, VisualStudio - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio Code which can be used to jump to a source code line in Github, Bitbucket, Visualstudio and GitLab