Visual Studio Code cannot detect installed git

Question

Visual Studio Code reports \"It look like git is not installed on your system.\" when I try to switch to the git view. I know I have git installed and used by other git clie

Answer 1

Update 2020 (Mac)

Went through this $h!† again after updating to Catalina, which requires an XCode update.

And to clarify, while this post is about VS Code, this issue, is system wide. Your git install is affected/hosed. You can try to run git in your terminal/bash/zsh or whatever it is now and it just won't.

Same fix, just update XCode, start it up and agree to license. That's it.

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Old post, but just hit this on MAC/OSXso hope this helps someone.

Symptoms:

• You've been using VS Code for some time and have no issues with Git
• You install XCode (for whatever reason - OS update, etc)
• After installing XCode, VS Code suddenly "can't find Git and asks you to either install or set the Path in settings"

Quick fix:

Run XCode (for the first time, after installing) and agree to license. That's it.

How I stumbled upon this "fix":

After going through numerous tips about checking git, e.g. which git and git --version, the latter actually offered clues with this Terminal message:

Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please run “sudo xcodebuild -license” and then retry this command.

As to why XCode would even wrap it's hands on git, WAT

Happy holidays and happy coding :)