microsoft / microsoft/vscode

No way to sign in multiple github accounts

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Description

### Description

I used to be able to sign in to multiple github accounts and have the UI pick the right account. Now it seems I can only sign in with a single account, and this seems to get out of sync with what "gh" thinks I'm signed in with.

### Issue Details

Item|Value
---|---
Issue Category|Bug
Target|Visual Studio Code
VS Code Version|Code 1.132.0 (df53daabb18cd157bdb08c7f01c34df936cf12f4, 2026-08-04T15:30:20Z)
OS Version|Windows_NT x64 10.0.26220

System Info

Item|Value
---|---
VS Code Version|Code 1.132.0 (df53daabb18cd157bdb08c7f01c34df936cf12f4, 2026-08-04T15:30:20Z)
OS Version|Windows_NT x64 10.0.26220
CPUs|Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz (8 x 3600)
GPU Status|2d_canvas: enabled
GPU0: VENDOR= 0x10de, DEVICE=0x1e87 [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080], DRIVER_VENDOR=NVIDIA, DRIVER_VERSION=32.0.15.9186 *ACTIVE*
GPU1: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.9061
Machine model name:
Machine model version:
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_graphite: disabled_off
trees_in_viz: disabled_off
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
webgl: enabled
webgpu: enabled
webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)|
Memory (System)|31.91GB (13.29GB free)
Process Argv|--folder-uri file:///e%3A/prj/planning --crash-reporter-id 5fe4547c-41ec-4de6-add1-fc92114e2670
Screen Reader|no
VM|0%
User Agent|Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code/1.132.0 Chrome/148.0.7778.280 Electron/42.7.1 Safari/537.36
Installation pure|true

Extensions (4)

Name|Identifier|Author|Version
---|---|---|---
Reflow Markdown|marvhen.reflow-markdown|marvhen|3.2.0
Agency|microsoft.agency|Microsoft|1.0.260515001
rust-analyzer|rust-lang.rust-analyzer|rust-lang|0.3.2989
Svelte for VS Code|svelte.svelte-vscode|svelte|110.3.0

Theme extensions: 9

A/B Experiments

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```

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