VS Code's Source Control icon has gone missing, how do I get it back?

Question

I don't know how I did this, but the Source Control icon on the left hand vertical menu of Visual Studio Code has gone missing on my work Mac. On my personal Mac it's still there, so I must have inadvertently done something to remove it from my work Mac.

How can I get the Source Control icon back?

Answer 1

Right-click on the sidebar (any part of the sidebar) and you will see this:

From the menu, enable "Source Control" from there.

As an alternative, as the screenshot says, you can also toggle showing/hiding the "Source Control" panel via its keyboard shortcut (in case it has changed with recent versions, look it up from the full keyboard shortcuts list):

• CTRL+SHIFT+G G on Windows/Linux
• CTRL+SHIFT+G on Mac

Then once it appears, you can drag it back to the sidebar and then do the same steps described above to toggle it to be always displayed.

Answer 2

For me, oddly there is no menu option, context menu, settings option, or really anything else. I tried disabling every extension to fix it, but when I right-click, as in the other answer, "Source Control" does NOT appear.

It seems the functions for "Source Control" are now in the Explorer Panel.

Drag that over back to the gutter and it's fixed.