Git missing in VS Code – No source control providers

Wow I spent so long on this. For me I had to go to the Extensions area > then click the ... at top right of menu > Show built-in Extensions

Git built-in extension was disabled!!

What helped me is setting the value of git.path setting to the full path of my git.exe file. After that I was able to see the git logo:

I added the git.exe path manually to the ms code user settings

{
    "git.path": "C:\\Git\\cmd\\git.exe",
    "git.enabled": true
}