How do I disable the diff dialog in Visual Studio?

Question

Does anyone know how I can turn off this annoying Diff popup that appears when I accidentally click the gutter?

Thanks

Answer 1

This is Line-staging support, also known as interactive staging, to manage it after release you can go to Tools > Options > Text Editor > Advanced and set Click to peek in margin to Off:

You also can set it to double-click to prevent accidental ones but still to have an ability to use the feature.

See also:

• Stage lines of code in Visual Studio doc (especially tips in Peek Difference support section)

Answer 2

Update：

After my reproduction, after I created a local git repository in VS2022 17.5.1, the click will appear.

Disable the third option to close it.

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Are you using any plugins? I haven't seen this window in Visual Studio.

Can't you click the X in the upper right corner of the picture to close it?

You probably want to remove this feature, I think you can remove it in the extension.