OpenVCS is plugin-first and VCS-agnostic. Features, themes, UI changes, and VCS integrations are all delivered by plugins.
| Feature |
Status |
Notes |
| Clone repository | ✅ | Available through the Git plugin |
| Open existing repository | ✅ | Includes recent repository tracking |
| Reopen last repository on launch | ✅ | Optional behaviour |
| Working tree status | ✅ | Shows repository changes |
| Per-file diff | ✅ | File-level change inspection |
| Commit diff | ✅ | Commit-level inspection |
| Diff selection readability | ✅ | Blue gutter stays continuous through each picked hunk, with a full-height hunk rail and bare per-line checkmarks keeping inclusion easy to scan |
| Discard changes | ✅ | Working tree cleanup |
| Feature |
Status |
Notes |
| Stage files | ✅ | Standard index workflow |
| Partial staging | ✅ | Patch-based staging |
| Partial commits | ✅ | Commit selected patch content |
| Restrict commit summary | ✅ | On-by-default setting that caps the commit title box at 72 characters |
| Commit from index | ✅ | Commit staged changes |
| Feature |
Status |
Notes |
| List local branches | ✅ | Local branch visibility |
| List remote branches | ✅ | Remote branch visibility |
| Create branch | ✅ | Create from current branch; optional checkout toggle in the Create Branch dialog; non-current base refs require backend support |
| Checkout branch | ✅ | Switch active branch |
| Rename branch | ✅ | Local branch rename |
| Delete branch | ✅ | Branch cleanup |
| Set upstream tracking | ✅ | Configure tracking |
| Feature |
Status |
Notes |
| Merge branch | ✅ | Branch merge workflow |
| Inspect conflicts | ✅ | Conflict details surfaced in UI for unmerged status variants |
| Checkout ours/theirs | ✅ | Conflict-side selection |
| Save merged result | ✅ | Persist resolved files |
| Launch external merge tool | ✅ | Uses configured external tooling |
| Abort merge | ✅ | Cancel active merge |
| Continue merge | ✅ | Complete merge after resolution |
| Feature |
Status |
Notes |
| List stashes | ✅ | Stash overview |
| Push stash | ✅ | Save working changes |
| Apply stash | ✅ | Apply without dropping |
| Pop stash | ✅ | Apply and remove |
| Drop stash | ✅ | Delete stash entry |
| Show stash | ✅ | Inspect stash content |
| Set remote URL | ✅ | Remote configuration |
| Fetch single remote | ✅ | Targeted fetch |
| Fetch all remotes | ✅ | Full remote update |
| Pull | ✅ | Merges remote changes like GitHub Desktop |
| Push | ✅ | Push local changes; branches already present on origin are treated as pushable, and first publish establishes upstream tracking |
| Feature |
Status |
Notes |
| LFS fetch | ✅ | Fetch LFS objects |
| LFS pull | ✅ | Pull LFS objects |
| LFS prune | ✅ | Remove old LFS objects |
| LFS track/untrack | ✅ | Manage LFS paths |
| Inspect LFS tracked paths | ✅ | View tracked files/patterns |
| Trust SSH host keys | ✅ | Host-key trust helper |
| List SSH agent keys | ✅ | Agent key visibility |
| Add SSH agent keys | ✅ | Agent key helper |
| Discover SSH keys | ✅ | Local key discovery |
| Feature |
Status |
Notes |
| Light theme | ✅ | Built in |
| Dark theme | ✅ | Built in |
| Plugin-provided themes | ✅ | Supported through plugins |
Standalone theme .zip packs | ❌ | Not currently supported |
| npm plugin loading | 🧪 | Early support |
| local-path plugin loading | 🧪 | Early support |
| Update check/install | ✅ | Application update flow |
| VCS output log | ✅ | Dedicated output window |
| App log tail/clear | ✅ | Runtime log tooling |
| Plugin/theme store | 🧭 | Planned/exploratory |
Legend: ✅ available · 🧪 early/experimental · 🧭 planned · ❌ not supported