No source control providers registered - How to register SCM in visual code on mac?

Question

I see there are several questions about having no active source control providers in VS code. I get a slightly different error:

No source control providers registered

I am on a mac with a recent both OSx update to Mojave (10.14) and a new version of vscode (Version 1.28.2).

I don't have xcode installed on my machine.

I want to use github.

How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

This video worked for me. Really weird. But somehow I seem to have disabled my builtin git extension. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzQnl44_70

Answer 2

I had this issue on Mac OS and I found that I had to go into Code > Preferences > Settings. Search for Git and then Scroll down until the Entry for Git: Path is found. Click edit in Settings. Follow the instructions.

I found the path to Git in a terminal

# which git
/usr/local/bin/git

Add to the end of the override file (in the right hand window of the VS Code settings editor, "" included.)

"git.path": "/usr/local/bin/git",

Now Git works.

Answer 3

Try disabling all extensions, reload, reenable all extensions, reload. I had this issue and re-installed vscode, re cloned my project, and still was getting the error of no source control providers registered. But when I disabled all my extensions, then reloaded, then reenabled, the reloaded it fixed my source control.

Answer 4

I found this question because I was having a similar problem with my vscode + mercurial extension.

My windows is setup as a portable install and mercurial is in one of my conda environments so hg.exe was not found automatically by the extension. I set hg.path = [path to hg.exe"] in my case this line as added to my user settings json file (File->Preferences->Settings, then search for git.path and click Edit in setttings.json):

"hg.path": "C:\Users\myname\anaconda3\envs\py27merc\Scripts\hg.exe"

An equivalent path on the path might be something like "/usr/local/bin/hg" depending how mercurial is installed on your system

git has a similar variable and if you have git installed in fashion so that it cannot be found automatically you might need to set it manually in a similar way like:

"git.path": "/usr/local/bin/git"

assuming that /usr/local/bin/git is where your git executable is located

Answer 5

One that helped me with this issue (in addition to adding "git.path": "/usr/local/bin/git"):

• In your settings.json search for "git.enabled": false and set to "git.enabled": true