microsoft/vscode

Cloning in VSCode sets absolute worktree path. It breaks git on WSL. How to prevent VSCode from doing this unnecessary behavior?

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raymelon commented

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

Version: 1.105.1 (user setup)
Commit: 7d842fb
Date: 2025-10-14T22:33:36.618Z
Electron: 37.6.0
ElectronBuildId: 12502201
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.19.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Use "Clone Git Repository..."
  2. Run WSL on the repo's local directory
  3. Run git
  4. See git fail with "cannot chdir to .. no such file or directory"
raymelon commented

Logs show that git clone <remote url> c:\Users\.. is what's causing the absolute worktree value. Defining a destination directory sets the worktree variable in .git/config. However, the way the destination directory is written makes it inaccessible in WSL 1. It has to be in the form /mnt/c/Users/...

The workaround is this: Remove the worktree variable from .git/config. Doing so will make git work on WSL again for the local directory where the repo was cloned.

However, I wonder if there's a more elegant workaround for this, such as changing how VSCode runs git clone command, so it stops setting absolute worktree values?

Logs:

2025-11-07 11:50:47.975 [info] [main] Log level: Info
2025-11-07 11:50:47.975 [info] [main] Validating found git in: "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe"
2025-11-07 11:50:47.975 [info] [main] Using git "2.27.0.windows.1" from "C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe"
2025-11-07 11:50:47.975 [info] [Model][doInitialScan] Initial repository scan started
2025-11-07 11:50:47.975 [info] [Model][doInitialScan] Initial repository scan completed - repositories (0), closed repositories (0), parent repositories (0), unsafe repositories (0)
2025-11-07 11:51:21.646 [info] > git clone https://github.com/redacted---/redacted---.git c:\Users\redacted---\redacted--- --progress [3432ms]
2025-11-07 11:51:21.646 [info] Cloning into 'c:\Users\redacted---\redacted---'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 118, done.        
remote: Counting objects:   0% (1/118)