Visual Studio Code source control not showing changes

Question

Visual Studio Code source control panel is empty when I click on it. Nothing to expand and nothing to click on.

Things I've tried:

• Uninstalled/Reinstalled Git
• Uninstall/Reinstalled VS Code
• Removed extensions folder

Answer 1

Open your project with cmd.

> cd your-folder-location
> code . -n

It worked for me

Answer 2

I fixed it by doing the following:

• go to file -> preferences -> settings
• Expand features
• Click SCM
• Click Always Show Providers
• I then messed around with left panel (can't remember what I did) but I noticed my changes now show
• I unchecked the setting I checked earlier and all is well now even after restarting VS Code

Answer 3

Dude, just lost an hour because my SCM in VSCode randomly stopped showing anything today. I restarted everything, tried git init, everything on the forums. Made sure Git built in extension is enabled, mine was already enabled so I was totally lost.

All I had to do was disable and then reenable the built in Git extension. and it fixed it.

Go to Extensions.

Filter by "built in".

Click the gear icon by Git, and click disable.

Then click it again, and click enable.

Here is a screenshot reference