diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/scm/browser/scmViewPane.ts b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/scm/browser/scmViewPane.ts
index cab7e308107cb..acb588e8a3984 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/contrib/scm/browser/scmViewPane.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/contrib/scm/browser/scmViewPane.ts
@@ -106,8 +106,9 @@ import { CancellationTokenSource } from 'vs/base/common/cancellation';
 import { DropdownWithPrimaryActionViewItem } from 'vs/platform/actions/browser/dropdownWithPrimaryActionViewItem';
 import { clamp } from 'vs/base/common/numbers';
 import { ILogService } from 'vs/platform/log/common/log';
-import { ICustomHover, setupCustomHover } from 'vs/base/browser/ui/hover/updatableHoverWidget';
+import { ICustomHover, ITooltipMarkdownString, setupCustomHover } from 'vs/base/browser/ui/hover/updatableHoverWidget';
 import { getDefaultHoverDelegate } from 'vs/base/browser/ui/hover/hoverDelegateFactory';
+import { MarkdownString } from 'vs/base/common/htmlContent';
 
 // type SCMResourceTreeNode = IResourceNode<ISCMResource, ISCMResourceGroup>;
 // type SCMHistoryItemChangeResourceTreeNode = IResourceNode<SCMHistoryItemChangeTreeElement, SCMHistoryItemTreeElement>;
@@ -945,8 +946,9 @@ class HistoryItemRenderer implements ICompressibleTreeRenderer<SCMHistoryItemTre
 			templateData.iconContainer.classList.add(...ThemeIcon.asClassNameArray(historyItem.icon));
 		}
 
+		const title = this.getTooltip(historyItem);
 		const [matches, descriptionMatches] = this.processMatches(historyItem, node.filterData);
-		templateData.label.setLabel(historyItem.message, historyItem.author, { matches, descriptionMatches });
+		templateData.label.setLabel(historyItem.message, historyItem.author, { matches, descriptionMatches, title });
 
 		templateData.actionBar.clear();
 		templateData.actionBar.context = historyItem;
@@ -964,6 +966,23 @@ class HistoryItemRenderer implements ICompressibleTreeRenderer<SCMHistoryItemTre
 		throw new Error('Should never happen since node is incompressible');
 	}
 
+	private getTooltip(historyItem: SCMHistoryItemTreeElement): ITooltipMarkdownString {
+		const markdown = new MarkdownString('', { isTrusted: true, supportThemeIcons: true });
+
+		if (historyItem.author) {
+			markdown.appendMarkdown(`$(account) **${historyItem.author}**\n\n`);
+		}
+
+		if (historyItem.timestamp) {
+			const dateFormatter = new Intl.DateTimeFormat(platform.language, { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric', hour: 'numeric', minute: 'numeric' });
+			markdown.appendMarkdown(`$(history) ${dateFormatter.format(historyItem.timestamp)}\n\n`);
+		}
+
+		markdown.appendMarkdown(historyItem.message);
+
+		return { markdown, markdownNotSupportedFallback: historyItem.message };
+	}
+
 	private processMatches(historyItem: SCMHistoryItemTreeElement, filterData: LabelFuzzyScore | undefined): [IMatch[] | undefined, IMatch[] | undefined] {
 		if (!filterData) {
 			return [undefined, undefined];