I started using VSCode Insiders and wanted to sync my Stable version extensions to Insider. According to the official documentation, I need to select "Stable" as the sync service. However I didn't notice this the first time I started Settings Sync and chose "Insiders". I cannot find how to change this to "Stable" in Settings/VSCode Command Palette; logout and re-login doesn't work; reinstalling VSCode Insiders doesn't work.
How can I change the service to Stable?
Encountered the problem myself and figured out a way to solve it.
First you click on an account icon and select "Setting sync is On"
Select "Settings Sync: Turn Off" -> Confirm logging out and deleting sync data
Find account icon again and click "Turn on Settings sync". Choose what to sync and hoopla! Get a prompt to choose Sync service.
I was playing around with my VSCode Settings Sync, and accidentally replaced my settings.json file with another one from a fresh install, as a consequence, I lost my entire settings.json configuration.
Is there a way to recover the lost settings.json file?
I checked my backups, however, it seems that I one cannot go back into the /Users/mf/Library/Application Support/Code/User/Sync folder.
Yes you can get them back.
They are saved on the hard-drive if your settings are set to their default values.
The universal method (works the same for all systems) is to hit the [F1] key, then type the command below into the input, until you see the option. When you do see the option click on it to open the directory.
Settings Sync: Open Backups Folder
The other option you have is to view the data in VSCode using the following VSCode command from your quick input using the [F1] key followed by the same instructions for the command above.
Settings Sync: Show Synced Data
There should be several saved versions of your settings, unless you have changed your configuration for settings sync in the settings menu, or in your user/workspace settings.json file.
Personally I like to just open backup folders and pullout what I need. If you are like me, and you use Ubuntu then the path below is the path used by VSCode to store backed-up keybindings & Settings.json instances. You can pullout what ever you need from that directory.
~/.config/Code/User/settings.json
If you need to restore the backed up files, you can visit this link, it demonstrates how to return to a previous editor configuration:
RESTORE PREVIOUS VS CODE CONFIGURATION:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/settings-sync#_restoring-data
So the latest version of vscode (1.46) provides preference sync, but I found I cannot enable this feature for remote vscode. Whenever I open remote folder, (e.g., in wsl), the option to sign in MS account and turn on preference sync is missing. Did I miss anything here or it is not supported?
figure below shows my local vscode instance with the preference sync:
figure below shows my vscode instance for remote (wsl) without the preference sync option:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/settings-sync
I was looking to enable this too, the first line is the answer I think. Only available for vscode insiders at the moment, maybe wait 'til next month
Visual Studio Code source control panel is empty when I click on it. Nothing to expand and nothing to click on.
Things I've tried:
Uninstalled/Reinstalled Git
Uninstall/Reinstalled VS Code
Removed extensions folder
Open your project with cmd.
> cd your-folder-location
> code . -n
It worked for me
Dude, just lost an hour because my SCM in VSCode randomly stopped showing anything today. I restarted everything, tried git init, everything on the forums. Made sure Git built in extension is enabled, mine was already enabled so I was totally lost.
All I had to do was disable and then reenable the built in Git extension. and it fixed it.
Go to Extensions.
Filter by "built in".
Click the gear icon by Git, and click disable.
Then click it again, and click enable.
Here is a screenshot reference
In my case, somehow, the Source Control Repositories option, available under the 3 dots ... on the SOURCE CONTROL tab, was no longer selected.
All I had to do was press the ... and select Source Control Repositories, then select the correct repo, and all the changes were again listed.
I had a similar issue. It seems vs code has two source control extensions. When I clicked View -> SCM it opened an extension with changes displaying.
source control extension 1
source control extension 2
I had this problem 2-3 times for the last 2 years (OS -> Linux Mint). The changes on any file didn't appear to the source control nor have they been marked on the line I've edited. When manually go to "Source control" and click on the refresh button they appear but the lines that I had change didn't light up (there were no visual marking on the files after editing them). This happened when I switched to a different branch while the workspace was open to the 2 monitors at the same time. Or when working on several projects (opened 2-3 or more VS Code instances). The scariest thing was that it didn't work not only for one repository(project) but for all of them. I've read alot on the subject and tried everything that I found and think of. There is some issue with git path mapping or something.
The thing that I tried:
reload VS Code
restarting VS Code
disable all extensions
enable/disable all git related options in (file -> preferences -> settings)
deleting (folders and files) and cloning the repository
updating git
removing and installing git
restarting PC (don't judge me I was desperate)
But the only solution that worked for me was:
open VS Code (if open, don't close it)
go to the directory where you keep your repositories (not from VS Code but from you file explorer).
go one folder above it (if you are in .../{{some folder}}/{{you repos}}, go to ../{{some folder}})
then open you repositories containing folder (/{{you repos}}) by right click -> open with VS Code
wait until everything loads. The Source Control will mark alot of changes, don't worry about it.
then close VS Code (all windows (instances), because it will open a new instance)
after that go to the directory where you keep your repositories again and right click and open with VS code the repository of you choice. Now at this point the Source control will start working properly.
What worked for me was going to my "code" folder where I keep all my repos, right-clicking on the folder containing the repo I want and opening that folder with VS Code.
The VS Code window for this specific repo was closed. I did have another window for a different repo open. As soon as the window opened, the changes showed up in source control and I was able to commit, push and everything else like normal.
I faced this problem when I opened a repo in a directory inside symlink.
My solution: just open this directory in original destination without any symlinks
I had this problem in a repository not as a problem from config but because I had a coverage folder with thousands of files not tracked and it seemed to slow the process of checking that out too much.
So I added that folder to .gitignore and it started working again.
Restating my Vscode And Giving time to load properly Solved my Problem
I had the same problem. What I did was:
Open another folder with File -> Open Folder...
Close the VSC
Open VSC
Open the original folder with File -> Open Folder...
After this I saw that the source control started loading and my changes came back.
Hope this works for you.
I couldn't see any changes in while trying git status. I opened changed files in text editor and they were not changed either. That lead me to conclusion that changes can't be seen by the system (and therefore by git).
The Autosave option was disabled, simply saving the changes helped.
That was my beginning with VSC, in Pycharm never had such problem.
I had this problem, because I was changing files one folder down from where I opened Visual Studio Code.
Solution- open Visual Studio Code without a location, File/Open Folder - open the folder I am directly working out of.
Unstaged changes now show in the direct folder I'm working in. Unstage changes previously auto-staged by Visual Studio Code when working on a nested project directory to see them (open a Terminal and run git reset).
I encountered the same issue, and I fixed that by removing the files.watcherExclude property in settings.json file.
Because the value of files.watcherExclude became { "**/**/*": true } somehow.
// settings.json
// remove or comment next line
// files.watcherExclude: { "**/**/*": true }
For me, the files were in WSL (Windows subsystem for linux) but I was not opening the folder as such.
in the bottom left, click the green >< symbol, then click "reopen folder in WSL"
VSC remote mode image
presto.
Go to View -> Terminal
cd to root folder, and run git status and see if you have any errors
I had a unsafe repository fatat error, as my repo was on a network drive. Did as suggested by git to add an exception and it fixed the issue.
close vscode
moved local Code config folder as backup (~/.config/Code/)
reopen vscode (this will still show problem)
close and reopen vscode (this will show db re-write issue but it will re-create config folder.)
this solved my problem. this reset many of my settings but It can be checked from config backup.
In setting check Git: Autorefresh
I experience this problem when I right click a folder and open it up with VS code. Instead now I start VS code from the start menu and after that I use File -> Open Folder option.
I experienced this issue with VSCode V1.70.1, all I did is just closing VSCode completely and open a new instance and I could find git changes appears simultaneously as expected.
If running into this issue on a Mac, make sure you are running your instance of Visual Studio Code from your Applications folder and not your Downloads folder. I managed to fire up an instance from the wrong folder and this prevented my Source Control from being able to properly load git info and also caused Visual Studio updates to fail. More on the issue can be found here.
Here is another possible solution for Linux users:
In my case, it was only not showing lines changed with the file open. Source control tab was showing fine.
I have a symlink from /var/www to /mnt/{hdd-uuid}/www. When I created my workspace, it was using the path /var/www/project-folder, instead of the full path, and this was giving me the error.
I opened my .code-workpsace file in another text editor and changed the references in the JSON from ../../../../var/www/project-folder to /mnt/{hdd-uuid}/www/project-folder, then reopen VS Code. Close all file tabs open and, when you open again a modified file it will show the lines changed.
It is possible that you need to trust the repo again.
Try opening project or folder which contains git files. Later try opening your wanted folder. This sorted the issue for me.
Double-check git is actually installed on your system. I just did a fresh install of Windows 11 the other day, and although one of the development tools I installed thereafter downloaded and supposedly installed git in Windows, actually, it never installed it. Fail!
I fixed this issue by toggled-on the AutoSave feature in VSCode via File > AutoSave. I noticed that the badge on the github does not show up until the file is actually saved first.
What worked for me was that I was forgetting to save, so just enabled autosave option.
File > Auto Save (check)
Open Visual Studio code -> View -> Appearance -> Show activity bar
I want to update the settings on github via Settings Sync when I close VSCode, is there any way to do it?
The Settings Sync extension does have an option to upload the settings whenever thesettings are changed:
Toggle Auto-Upload on change
Auto-upload is disabled by default. When the settings are changed and
saved this feature will automatically start the upload process and
save the settings online.
Select Command "Sync : Advanced Options > Toggle Auto-Upload on
Settings Change" command to Turn ON / OFF the auto-upload.
Or set
"sync.autoUpload": true,
false is the default.
------- UPDATE -----------
Also see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_43.md#settings-sync as a preview feature in v1.43. Or see my fuller answer here:
Is there any way to sync my Visual Studio Code settings between instances?
You can now sign in with your GitHub account to synchronize your VS
Code preferences.
from https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_45.md#settings-sync