We are using the default vscode git package
/vscode.git
and
/vscode.git-base
Should git history work?
if so how does one get it to work?
Should git history work?
I do not believe our history view (contributed in @theia/scm-extra) works with VS Code APIs (it should be fine to remove @theia/scm-extra going forward). Instead, you can use the timeline view, and/or plugins which provide even more feature rich support for git.
Example of the timeline:
