microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
[Feature Request] Support for `--user-data-dir` and `--extensions-dir` on WSL
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Since Jul 9, 2022.
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Hi team, I'm the author of an extension 'vscode-manager' which helps create isolated VSCode instances and also helps team have the same VSCode setup (user settings and extensions)
This extension works on macOS, Windows and Linux.
Unfortunately, because of the missing --user-data-dir and --extensions-dir arguments on WSL, I'm not able support vscode-manager on this awesome platform.
https://github.com/mrsauravsahu/vscode-manager/issues/5
Here's the error when I try to launch VSCode with a custom user data and extension directory.
$ code --user-data-dir '/home/sauravsahu/.config/vscode-manager/arrogant-roundworm/data' --extensions-dir '/home/sauravsahu/.config/vscode-manager/arrogant-roundworm/extensions' -n
Ignoring option user-data-dir: not supported for code.
Ignoring option extensions-dir: not supported for code.
$ code -v
1.69.0
92d25e35d9bf1a6b16f7d0758f25d48ace11e5b9
x64
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