I just installed Visual Studio Code 1.17 and opened a Git repository folder. When entering the Source Control tab I see a message "There are no active source control providers". I thought Git was baked into VSCode!?
To make matters worse, when I attempt to install additional SCM providers there is no option for Git. How do I get my Git back!?
Wow I spent so long on this. For me I had to go to the Extensions area > then click the ... at top right of menu > Show built-in Extensions
Git built-in extension was disabled!!
For MacOS users, there isn't any "Show built-in extensions" option.
Just search @builtin git in the Extensions search box.
Then Enable Git from the Git extension settings.
Answer by @carpiediem in the comments.
CTRL+SHIFT+P showed it when searching for 'Built-in'
Are you using MacOS? If you've updated Xcode lately, you may need to accept Xcode's terms of service agreement to use git.
$ sudo xcodebuild -license accept
xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' is a command line tools instance
What helped me is setting the value of git.path setting to the full path of my git.exe file. After that I was able to see the git logo:
git is in the PATH and can be used from the Windows command line. Setting git.path is only necessary if that wouldn’t be the case.
git being on PATH doesn't work for OP. Also useful for people who don't want git on PATH
I had this too. tried overriding the default git.path setting but that didn't work. What seemed to fix it for me was opening an existing repository .. just an empty folder that I created and did a 'git init' in at the command prompt. After I opened that folder I could click the Source Control button and it had all the git functions available and no longer said "There are no active source control providers". Furthermore, doing File->Close folder got me back to where I started. Another way was to click the small "branch" button ABOVE that message ("There are no active ...") and initialise a repository. This message is very confusing!
Visual Studio Code does come with in integrated Git source control provider. However, in order for that to work, Git itself needs to be installed on your system as well. So just download and install Git on your machine, and Visual Studio Code will also be able to use it.
While the source control panel does not tell you this, but unfortunately just stays quiet about it, not offering anything, there is a way to have VS Code tell you this: On the “Welcome” page that is displayed when you start the application, there is a link “Clone Git repository…”. If you click there, VS Code will tell you that Git is missing:
Once you have installed Git and restarted Visual Studio Code, you will see a small Git icon at the top of the source control panel (unless you already have a repository opened of course):
This will tell you that Git is there and you can click the icon to initialize a repository—or just open an existing repository.
Open Visual Studio Code, click left-bottom ⚙️ (gears) and select Command Palette.
Search for the word "enable", and select Enable All Extensions.
For me, the solution was (on Mac) Code > Settings > User Settings > Extensions > Git
Check the (unchecked) box next to Enabled - Whether git is enabled.
Simplest steps what worked for me:
1. Download and install Git on your machine as mentioned in Poke's answer.
2. Restart VS Code.
3. Open Command Prompt (Crtl+Shift+P) and write 'Git: Initialize Repository' and choose a folder you like (it can be even a temp folder).
4. Finally Git logo appears as shown in Torvin's answer and then its easy to set up your git account and start using it.
Enter the Add-ons field in VS Code and; @builtin git write. For Example
Then enable it.
You need initialize (git init in terminal) your project/folder, that your VS Code to be able to see his as git-project.
Enter in your project/folder through terminal
cd ~/ImbaFolder
git init (it created .git file - the git repository)
Then your VS Code will to see that it is git repository, and it will works.
If this helps; I did face the same issue with the latest version of VS Code and tried all the mentioned tips, but no luck. Finally, I added a folder to a workspace, saved that workspace, and then when I checked the repo icon, could see the small git icon and can as well clone a repo from the command palette.
Raised an issue for this and commented the same findings. Can be found here https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/49469
So, I tried all sorts of things to get this to work. I tried "git.path": "/usr/bin/git", adding git directly to my path, etc. Nothing worked.
Finally, I realized that in my VSCode workspace settings, I had "git.enabled: false". I changed it to true, and it works like a charm.
"git.path": "/usr/bin/git" was the fix for me
which git, and it will return the exact location of your Git folder. Then simply paste it on the settings config.My plugin was disabled, just enabled it.
That is because the built-in git is disabled in your vs code either because of installing any git package or you accidentally disable it.
For enable it
So I tried nearly every answer and nothing.
I ended up trying Ctrl + shift + G and noticed a command at the bottom of VS code.
All I did was press the G key and the icon suddenly appeared and everything works perfectly!
Try xcode-select --install. In macOS git is attached to XCode’s Command line tools
Tested in VsCode on Windows dev PC.
What worked for me was to enter Settings by hitting Ctrl + , at least on my machine and then enter the following setting: SCM.provider.AlwaysShowProviders
Then just ticked the checkbox and Git was lighting up again and I could then go to Source Control by Ctrl+shift+G.
Since i installed GIT in custom defined path, i needed to reference it inside settings.json
( F1 > settings.json > enter )
Add setting:
"git.path": "<custom path to git.exe>"
Wich in my case made it look like:
{
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\cmd.exe",
"git.path": "<custom path to git.exe>"
}
Right after it worked perfectly.
For future prospects, if anyone is facing a problem like mine. This may be a solution.
I found that VScode stopped tracking after I checked out a different branch (new one). What solved it was simply:
VSC then synced with the new branch and showed the differences.
I ran into the same problem and figured out that VSCode does not recognize git repo unless it is added to a workspace.
So, add the folder you want to be tracked via Git into a workspace and git will be enabled automatically.
I did not see the Git controls until I created a file and saved the current workspace - suddenly "Source Code Control" showed the Git Icon and I could initialize a new Git repo.
Cloning an existing repo seems to be unsupported in VS Code, and I guess that is the reason that Git controls are hidden until there is a workspace where a new repo can be initialized.
Scenario: For MAC + issue afer installing/updating xcode:
Can also happen when you install xcode and yet to accept the license terms. To accept the terms, just run the below.
sudo xcodebuild -license
Post to this restart VS code & you are good to go.
Solution For Mac Users
This is simple way and this way has been solved my problem on Mac:
1) Run this command on console :
sudo xcodebuild -license accept
2) Close Visual Studio Code and reopen it.
That's it.
Note : If you are using MacOS and you have updated your Xcode recently, you may need to accept XCode's terms of service agreement to use git.
I just fixed this problem. I newly installed VS Code and this problem occurs.
OS: Ubuntu 18.04.2
On my source control tab, it shows "no source control providers registered".
Here's how I fixed this problem.
/usr/bin (my git dir)git init command in my project folderAnd this problem is fixed.
I incidentally dragged the git icon to the search panel, just drag it back to solve the issue.
If SCM view is empty you need to install a source code provider.
Check Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X) under View and select the SCM provider you want. Start typing @ca and you will see extensions listed. Select @category: “scm providers” to see available SCM providers.
If you don’t see Git here you need to install Git. Here’s their download page for windows. https://git-scm.com/download/win
After installing you’ll see Git Extensions for VS Code listed under Extensions view. Select it and click install on the right hand side panel that appears.
After installing the SCM remember to close and reopen VS Code.
The reason for this problem is that Git is not initialized in the folder that you are trying VS Code to open (this is for Windows 10).
git in: C:\Users\YourName\ so it will look like this C:\Users\YourName\git (<-- you can pick any directory)Git GUI Here > Create New RepositoryBrowse for the folder you just created (to initialize Git there) > click Create.git file in that folderFile > Open Folder > (select the folder you just initialized Git at)Adding another solution in case someone like me runs in to this again.
I had just setup a new node project and I was getting this. I had to create a .gitignore file and add node_modules to it and then vscode looked correct. From what I can tell it might be because there are other git repos in the my node_modules and vscode was seeing those as well. Not sure the technical reasons but that seems to have fixed it for me.
I see that Cygwin isn't mentionned here. It happened to me and I found the solution https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/7998#issuecomment-245356777.
If you are using Git from Cygwin.From Windows terminal, execute the following command :
> cd c:\
> md cygdrive
> cd cygdrive
> c:\ - mklink /j "c" c:\
(Assuming that git is stored in the following folder : C:\Cygwin\bin\git.exe)
Now, restart VSCode
