Can't activate any GitLens UI

[appinteractive]

• GitLens Version: 8.0.2
• VSCode Version: 1.20.1
• OS Version: 10.12.6

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Installed GitLens
2. Opened Welcome Screen
   all activated but nothing shown in UI
3. Restarted VSCode
   still nothing
4. set following settings manually (still no UI Elements or any sign of GitLens beside the Welcome Screen)

    "gitlens.gitExplorer.enabled": true,
    "gitlens.statusBar.enabled": true,
    "gitlens.currentLine.enabled": true,
    "gitlens.hovers.annotations.enabled": true,
    "gitlens.codeLens.enabled": true

As a side note, I have a Case Sensitive File System

I even re-installed VSCode and disabled ALL Extensions, but still there is NO Sign of GitLens.

[eamodio]

Hi, can you please enable output channel logging by setting "gitlens.outputLevel": "verbose" in your settings.json. This will enable logging to the GitLens channel in the Output pane. Once enabled, please attempt to reproduce the issue (if possible) and attach the relevant log lines from the GitLens channel.

[appinteractive]

Git found: 2.13.2 @ /usr/local/Cellar/git in 64 ms
Starting repository search in 1 folders
Searching for repositories (depth=1) in '/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt' ...
Running(/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
GitLens(v8.0.2) activated in 137 ms
Completed(/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt): git rev-parse --show-toplevel in 33 ms
Running(/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
Completed(/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt): git rev-parse --show-toplevel in 5 ms
Searching for repositories (depth=1) in '/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt' took 204 ms
Running(/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
Completed(/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt): git rev-parse --show-toplevel in 7 ms
isTracked('/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt/package.json', 'undefined', 'undefined')
Running(): git ls-files /Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt/package.json
Completed(): git ls-files /Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt/package.json in 6 ms
Running(/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt/server): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
Completed(/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt/server): git rev-parse --show-toplevel in 7 ms
isTracked('/Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt/server/index.js', 'undefined', 'undefined')
Running(): git ls-files /Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt/server/index.js
Completed(): git ls-files /Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt/server/index.js in 4 ms

by the way, updated git 2.13 to 2.16 bit didn't help

[eamodio]

What folder are you opening in vscode? Does that folder have a repository in it? If so, is the repo at the root? Nested deeper than 1 level?

[appinteractive]

@eamodio there is a valid repo without any nasting:

I had two remotes linked to that repo but this is not the issue as it does not work on any of my repos.

[eamodio]

So which folder are you opening vscode to? /Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt?

And the repo is in /Users/Greg/Projekte/HumanConnection/hc-frontend-nuxt/stuff?

[appinteractive]

@eamodio Wow I know what caused it, I had Git installed be Homebrew on OS X!
Could it be that you are expecting the git executable in a specific directory like /usr/local/bin/git.

Before it was /usr/local/Cellar/git

[eamodio]

GitLens does search for the git executable (similar to what vscode does). You can also use the built-in vscode setting git.path to point to the correct git exe (FYI, GitLens also has its own gitlens.advanced.git but that should only be used if for some strange reason it has to be separate).

It seems very strange to me that vscode built-in git support would work, but GitLens wouldn't.

[appinteractive]

What is strange is that there is no message or anything, just the vacuum void filled with nothing.

[eamodio]

Well that part isn't surprising -- from the first logs you posted, GitLens initialized fine, found git fine, and used git fine, but it failed to find any repositories. Which is not an uncommon scenario -- people open folders and files without repos all the time, so in that case GitLens just silently hides in the background until something changes (i.e. a repo shows up).

And I'm even more confused that changing the git path would have any affect on any of that (because the version of git it found wasn't that old -- if it was you would have seen a warning about it).

So the crux of the issue is why is GitLens not finding a repo in the folder you opened. That is why I was asking about what folder you are opening and exactly where the repo is inside that folder. By default GitLens only scans 2 levels -- the folder opened and 1 level down from there (it can be controlled with the gitlens.advanced.repositorySearchDepth setting -- the trade off being the deeper it goes the longer it takes). But GitLens should automatically "find" a repo, when you open a file from within a repo (assuming that is all within the folder you opened in vscode).

So can you confirm what folder you are opening, and where the repo is located?

[eamodio]

@appinteractive any update on this?

[appinteractive]

hey @eamodio I dod not did alter any git specific settings before and the .git folder is direclty in the root of the opened project folder. Also is there no git related stuff in any of the parend or child directories. It did checked it with several projects before.

It seams as if it was not setisfied with the given git version is found or did not even was aware of the git installation provided in the path variables.

Could it be that you rely somehow on the build in terminal / bash instead of the one that vscode is using? Because I am using iTerm with ZSH (which I also see in vscode) where the path was set, but the build in terminal may not have the variable as they use different profile files.

[dylankershaw]

I'm encountering a similar issue. I installed GitLens three weeks ago but it stopped functioning entirely after about a week and a half. I've tried enabling, disabling, and reinstalling it and every other extension to rule out any conflicts, but saw no change.

• OSX 10.13.3
• VSCode 1.20.1
• GitLens 8.1.1
• git 2.16.2

I enabled the verbose output setting, and see this output when opening any file:
Running(/Users/d.kershaw/repositories/mojo/app/controllers): git rev-parse --show-toplevel Completed(/Users/d.kershaw/repositories/mojo/app/controllers): git rev-parse --show-toplevel in 3 ms isTracked('/Users/d.kershaw/repositories/mojo/app/controllers/application_controller.rb', 'undefined', 'undefined') Running(): git ls-files /Users/d.kershaw/repositories/mojo/app/controllers/application_controller.rb Completed(): git ls-files /Users/d.kershaw/repositories/mojo/app/controllers/application_controller.rb in 3 ms

[Rakk4403]

Me, neither.

• OSX : 10.13.3
• VSCode : 1.21.1
• GitLens : 8.2.0
• git : 2.14.3

logs:Gitlens

Running(/Users/RakkMac/Workspace/deep-learning-from-scratch/.vscode): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
Completed(/Users/RakkMac/Workspace/deep-learning-from-scratch/.vscode): git rev-parse --show-toplevel in 8 ms
isTracked('/Users/RakkMac/Workspace/deep-learning-from-scratch/.vscode/settings.json', 'undefined', 'undefined')
Running(): git ls-files /Users/RakkMac/Workspace/deep-learning-from-scratch/.vscode/settings.json
Completed(): git ls-files /Users/RakkMac/Workspace/deep-learning-from-scratch/.vscode/settings.json in 5 ms
Running(/Users/RakkMac/Library/Application Support/Code/User): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
Completed(/Users/RakkMac/Library/Application Support/Code/User): git rev-parse --show-toplevel in 8 ms
isTracked('/Users/RakkMac/Library/Application Support/Code/User/settings.json', 'undefined', 'undefined')
Running(/Users/RakkMac/Workspace/deep-learning-from-scratch/.vscode): git rev-parse --show-toplevel
Completed(/Users/RakkMac/Workspace/deep-learning-from-scratch/.vscode): git rev-parse --show-toplevel in 5 ms
isTracked('/Users/RakkMac/Workspace/deep-learning-from-scratch/.vscode/settings.json', 'undefined', 'undefined')

Help me, plz!

[ninnemana]

I was able to solve this issue on my machine by setting git.path in VSCode. I have git installed using Homebrew and once I set the git.path to /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.16.2/bin/git everything started working as expected.

• OSX: 10.13.3
• VSCode: 1.22.0-insider
• GitLens: 8.2.0
• git: 2.16.2