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Remove a Repository From a VSCode Multi-Root Workspace
2020-10-15
Tags: English Dev Vscode

Removing a folder from a multi-root workspace does not remove the associated git repo from SCM view. I’ve reported this already as an issue in the VSCode project:

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create a multi-root workspace:
    • folder_A contains git-repo A
    • folder_B contains git-repo B SCM pane shows repo A and repo B

  2. Remove folder_B SCM pane still shows repo B (expected: repo B is automatically closed/>oved)

  3. Select “close repo” on repo B repo B vanishes from SCM pane

  4. reopen workspace SCM pane again shows repo B (expected: repo B does no longer show up)

As a workaround you can search and delete the workspace settings under C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\workspaceStorage.

Update 2020-11-04

There was some analysis on the topic on Github. Obviously, it is connected to having files from folder_B still open in an editor. Closing those should solve the problem without the above workaround.