GitHub Comments

Product Licensing

Per-seat licenses are available for purchase by companies or individuals intending to use GitHub Comments extension. The license is machine tied. The same license key can be used only on one PC. This means that if a company has 30 PCs with GitHub Comments extension installed, they must purchase 30 seat licenses. If needed the license can be deactivated and reused on another PC.

The license permit the perpetual use of the latest version of GitHub Comments extension at the time of purchase, and all future versions.

Description

GitHub Comments is Visual Studio extension with the following features:

Features

• Enables spell checking in commit messages
• Enables adding prefix based on the git branch name

Pro Features

Commit message character counter

• Adds a live character counter to the Git commit message input in Visual Studio.
• The counter automatically updates as you type commit message.
• Shows the count for the **first line only** (subject line).
• Applies threshold colors:
  • Greater or equal 50 characters warning (orange-like)
  • Greate than 72 characters error (red-like)

Atlassian Jira integration

• Adds ticket summary to the Git Changes window title
• Adds Jira button next to "Generate commit message", this button adds JIRA summary text to the commit message

Download

GitHub Comments Extension for Visual Studio 2026