vscode-pull-request-github: No GitHub Pull Requests and Issues in the sidebar, issues autocompletion and hover not working

• Extension version: v0.36.2
• VSCode Version: 1.64.2 (Universal)
• OS: macOS Monterey 12.1

I have Node.js project, GitHub repo, and a local VSCode with following plugins: ESLint, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Pull Requests and Issues.

Problems:

• There is no GitHub Pull Requests and Issues in the sidebar
• When I start typing // # issues lookup is not triggered
• There is no hover over issues in comment i.e. // TODO #7

Output from GitHub Pull Request:

[Info] /Users/xxxxxxx/.ssh/config: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/Users/xxxxxxx/.ssh/config'
[Info] Registering git provider
[Info] Looking for git repository
[Info] Found 0 repositories during activation
[Info] Git repository found, initializing review manager and pr tree view.
[Info] Repository file:///Users/xxxxxxx/Code/prototype has been opened
[Info] Review> Validate state in progress
[Info] Review> Validating state...
[Info] Cannot updates repositories as git is uninitialized
[Info] Git initialization state changed: state=initialized
[Info] Review> Queuing additional validate state
[Info] Review> Validating state...
[Info] No remotes found. The following remotes are missing: origin, upstream
[Info] No GitHub remotes found
[Info] Review> Queuing additional validate state
[Info] Repo state for file:///Users/xxxxxxx/Code/prototype changed.
[Info] Repo file:///Users/xxxxxxx/Code/prototype has already been setup.
[Info] Review> Validating state...
[Info] Found GitHub remote
[Info] Review> no matching pull request metadata found for current branch testing-xxxxxxx
[Info] Review> no matching pull request metadata found on GitHub for current branch testing-xxxxxxx

Structure of the repo:

% git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/xxxxxxxxxx/prototype.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/xxxxxxxxxx/prototype.git (push)

% git branch   
  main
  testing-xxx
* testing-xxxxxxxxx