Visual Studio Code git/source control gutter stopped showing

Question

Working with VS Code, the explorer git status gutter indicators stopped showing for one of my repositories.

• I tried rebooting VS Code, My PC
• I tried removing the index file and git reset

Those didn't resolve the issue.

(Git changes are still tracked in the Source Control Manager panel)

Answer 1

Apparently another common reason for this is that you are accessing your git repo through a symlink. See: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/60010#issuecomment-433424527

This was the case for me and redirecting vscode to open the folder via the full path fixed it.