title: In Visual Studio Code for Windows, the Git branch doesn't show and can't create a branch
body: <p>So I've been using Visual Studio Code (VS Code) for a while and working on my project with Git and had no problem.  I was able to clone the git repository to a work space then I would see the "master" at the bottom left corner showing that I cloned a master branch and am working on the master branch.  Then Normally I can click on it and select "Create new branch" and create my own branch such as "off_master".</p>
  
  <p>I don't know why, but since little over a week ago, when I clone a git repository, it downloads the files, but I don't see the the word "master" at the bottom left of VS Code.  And when I click on "Create new branch" and give a name, I get a general git error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Git: Failed to execute git
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I see these in the git log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt; git rev-parse --show-toplevel
  &gt; git checkout -q -b off_Master
  &gt; git rev-parse --show-toplevel
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have no idea why it's starting to do this.
  So I've uninstalled VS Code, deleted this directory which seem to have all the VS Code settings:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Users\&lt;myId&gt;\AppData\Roaming\Code\
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've then reinstalled VS Code with latest and same thing happens.</p>
  
  <p>When I issue <code>git status</code> from the directory which contains .git directory, I get an output like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>On branch master
  Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
  nothing to commit, working tree clean
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So it looks like I am using the master branch, but VS Code is not showing.
  And somehow I cannot create a new branch from VS Code.</p>
  
  <p>I also tried a command like <code>git config --list</code> and it does have correct <code>user.name</code>, <code>user.email</code>, and <code>remote.origin.url</code> and these which look OK:</p>
  
  <pre><code>remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
  branch.master.remote=origin
  branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am not very familiar with git, thus I use VS Code to drive the git, so it's very critical that I get this back to working state...</p>
  
  <p>Any idea why this might be happening?</p>
  
  <p>Only thing that makes me bit suspicious is that I was doing some stuff with Angular JS and upgraded NodeJS to do some stuff, but I wouldn't think these will have any impact to VS Code and git.</p>
  
  <p>One other thing is that even if I removed that "Code" directory, when I reinstalled VS Code, it seemed to have all the extensions that I had installed previously, so it seems not everything was cleaned up.. How can I clean up everything so that it will look as if I am installing VS Code brand new?  Perhaps doing this and reinstalling might help?</p>