📸 noGIT — Local History Timeline for VS Code

Google Docs-style version history for your code. No Git required.

Ever lose work because you forgot to commit? Ever want undo history that survives closing a file? noGIT silently snapshots your workspace at regular intervals, giving you a time-travel timeline right inside VS Code — zero config, zero repos, zero ceremony.

Perfect for quick scripts, school projects, config files, or any folder where spinning up a Git repo feels like overkill.

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✨ Features

• 🕐 Auto-snapshots — Captures modified files every N minutes (default: 10)
• 📂 Local-only storage — Everything stays in a .nogit/ folder inside your workspace
• 🗂️ Timeline UI — Browse your snapshot history in a clean webview panel
• 👁️ One-click preview — Open any previous version of a file in a read-only tab
• 🧹 Auto-pruning — Keeps your disk clean by capping stored snapshots (default: 48)
• ⚡ Lightweight — No background processes, no network calls, no dependencies
• 🎯 Smart filtering — Ignores node_modules, .git, dist, and other noise automatically

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🚀 Quick Start

Install from source (dev mode)

git clone https://github.com/yashanil98/noGIT.git
cd noGIT
npm install
npm run build

Then open the folder in VS Code and press F5 to launch with the extension loaded.

Usage

1. Open any folder in VS Code — noGIT activates automatically

2. Edit some files — noGIT tracks what changes

3. Wait for the auto-snapshot interval, or trigger one manually:

   Ctrl+Shift+P → noGIT: Snapshot Now

4. Browse your history:

   Ctrl+Shift+P → noGIT: Show Timeline

5. Click Open on any file in the timeline to preview that version

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⚙️ Configuration

Add these to your VS Code settings.json:

{
  "nogit.enable": true,                    // Toggle auto-snapshots on/off
  "nogit.snapshotIntervalMinutes": 10,     // Minutes between snapshots
  "nogit.maxSnapshots": 48,                // Max snapshots before pruning oldest
  "nogit.snapshotFolderName": ".nogit",    // Where snapshots live in your workspace
  "nogit.excludePatterns": [               // Glob patterns to ignore
    "**/.git/**",
    "**/.nogit/**",
    "**/node_modules/**",
    "**/dist/**",
    "**/out/**"
  ]
}

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📁 How It Works

your-project/
├── src/
│   └── app.ts
├── .nogit/                          ← created automatically
│   └── snapshots/
│       ├── 20260611-143022/         ← timestamp folder
│       │   ├── src/app.ts           ← copy of file at that moment
│       │   └── meta.json            ← manifest of captured files
│       └── 20260611-153022/
│           ├── src/app.ts
│           └── meta.json
└── ...

Each snapshot is a flat copy of only the files that changed since the last snapshot. The meta.json manifest records what was captured and when.

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🛠️ Development

npm install          # Install dependencies
npm run build        # One-shot production bundle
npm run compile      # Type-check with tsc
npm run watch:esbuild  # Watch mode (auto-rebuild on save)

Press F5 in VS Code to launch the Extension Development Host with noGIT loaded.

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🗺️ Roadmap

• Diff view — compare any snapshot against your current file
• Restore command — revert a file to a previous snapshot
• Full glob/micromatch pattern support for excludes
• Multi-root workspace support
• Per-file mini timeline in the editor gutter
• Marketplace publishing

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📜 License

MIT — do whatever you want with it.

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Built for people who code faster than they commit.