Setting `chat.sessionSync.enabled` didn't update info hover until I restarted

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
desktop

Research direction

No file or test is named. Search the VS Code source for chat.sessionSync.enabled and the Copilot panel's status-bar hover entry point, then reproduce the setting change without restarting. Done means the hover mentions Session Sync immediately after the setting is enabled, with a regression test covering the behavior.

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Description

Type: Bug

  1. Enable the new setting.
  2. Hover over the Copilot panel at the right-hand end of the status bar.
  3. 🐛 no mention of Session Sync.
  4. Restart VS Code and check again. Session Sync is now shown on the hover.

VS Code version: Code 1.123.0 (6a44c352bd24569c417e530095901b649960f9f8, 2026-06-03T11:29:03+02:00)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
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