The GitLens extension is fairly well featured if you are still curious about improving your non-terminal git experience.
Re:Visual Studio Code 1.30 Released
by hobos_delight on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @05:51PM
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Thanks I'll check it out!
I tried to use the git UI that it provides, but in the end preferred to manage my vcs from the terminal.
I'm reasonably happy with it - and I didn't think this was going to be the case when I first tried it out.