Fix “Activating the Pull Requests and Issues extension failed. Please make sure you have git installed.”

After my favourite text editor, Atom, is going to retire very soon 😭 , I decided to try VSCode for text editing. I have used VSCode before for my data science and LaTex projects but I haven’t used it for quite a while. But after I opened it I found this error.

I tried installing GitHub Desktop, but it doesn’t solve the issue 😅.

Here is how I fixed the problem:

• Installed the official Git from https://git-scm.com/download/mac.
• But first I’ll need to install Homebrew first.
• I installed everything from VSCode terminal. Then restart VSCode and the issue is gone 😄