Walkthrough's first step still illustrates the removed Home view

Author: nikolay-1986Created Sep 4, 2026Updated Sep 16, 2026
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Summary

The opening step of the GitLens walkthrough (GitLens: Get Started) is illustrated with a screenshot of the Home view, which no longer exists. The image shows the GitLens side bar with a HOME section expanded — its current work item, its Launchpad summary, its "Start Work on an Issue" button — and a callout reading "GitLens Home — Your command center for repo history, branches, and active work."

Walkthrough first-step illustration — a screenshot of the removed Home view, captioned "GitLens Home — Your command center for repo history, branches, and active work."

The same image is used by the first step in four subscription states, so it is shown to community users, users on a trial, users whose trial expired, and users eligible for reactivation.

Impact

The first thing a new or returning user sees in the walkthrough is a tour of a surface they cannot open. The callout names Home as the command center, which now contradicts the product: that role belongs to the Commit Graph. Users following the picture will look for a Home section in the side bar and not find one, and the mismatch undercuts the walkthrough's credibility at the exact point it is meant to orient someone.

The Commit Graph onboarding — the surface that now holds the "command center" role the illustration attributes to Home

Validation

  1. Open a repository with GitLens installed.
  2. Run GitLens: Get Started.
  3. Look at the first step, "Welcome to GitLens: Unlock Your Repo's Full Story", and its illustration.
  4. Observed: the illustration is a screenshot of the Home view, labelled "GitLens Home — Your command center for repo history, branches, and active work". Expected: an illustration of a surface that exists in this version.
  5. Repeat on a trial and an expired-trial account state — the first step there uses the same illustration.

Live capture of the first walkthrough step, "Welcome to GitLens: Unlock Your Repo's Full Story", showing the illustration in context

Risk

Text-only; no functional behaviour changes with it. Replacing the illustration touches no product code, and the walkthrough steps' wording was already updated when the view was removed — the image is what was missed.

Environment

GitLens on main (Home view removed), VS Code 1.136.1, Windows 11.

Related: #5778 (Remove the Home view), #5809 (Consolidate Welcome & Walkthrough Paths).

Source: gitkraken/vscode-gitlens