Setting to avoid syncing extensions

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Setting to avoid syncing extensions

Closed this issue 3 months ago · 6 comments

Note: this is more of a feature request and less of an issue, I didn't see a feature request template so I will be using this instead.

As someone that manages 2 different OSes for 2 different types of development, I love having the ability to create OS-agnostic shortcuts on 1 machine and have them reflected in another, this becomes problematic however when I only want 1 group of extensions on Linux and another group of extensions on Windows.

I'd love to be able to sync everything but extensions, one simple idea I had of achieving this is to ensure "*" is a valid entry to syncing.excludedExtensions. Thoughts?

Answer 1 · 2023-01-16T09:26:57.000Z

Currently It's not possible to exclude all extensions by using the "*" pattern, and perhaps adding a switch in VSCode Settings is a better option, but let me think it over.

Answer 2 · 2023-02-22T13:53:59.000Z

Would be nice also to have an option to sync extensions in a non deleting mode. I want to install the synced extensions but not to uninstall the not listed extensions.

Answer 3 · 2023-03-09T10:12:45.000Z

@ionlizarazu After some investigation, using the "*" pattern is a viable solution to prevent uploading the extensions for now, you should try it.

Answer 4 · 2023-03-09T10:15:09.000Z

In my case, I want to upload the extensions, but I don't wanna remove locally any extension that is not synced.

Answer 5 · 2023-03-09T12:40:59.000Z

Now that I understand, let me look.

Answer 6 · 2023-11-24T10:50:39.000Z

Any progress on this out of curiosity?