Visual studio code tracks one git repo only

Question

I am working with VS Code IDE and cloned two repos. i.e.

git clone url://repo1
cd new
git clone url://repo2 new2

However,VS code is only tracking one repo for changes. it grays out new2 folder(it is part of repo1 gitignore). also if I make any changes it does not reflect in left panel of VS code source control.

Is it possible in Visual studio code to work with two repositories and tracking/pulling/pushing changes of both repos?

Disclaimer : I have not worked much on git or VS code earlier.

Old question but pretty related I guess: [Nested Git repositories?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1871282/nested-git-repositories) — Álvaro González, May 29 '20 at 15:16
@ÁlvaroGonzález is it just git behaviour? or VSCode's? I am not able to figure out that. — Bhavesh Ghodasara, May 29 '20 at 15:19
According to the [newest answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/56848737/13508), "by default git does not track the .git folder of the nested repository". I'm not proficient with git so I can't add much more. — Álvaro González, May 29 '20 at 15:23

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 11 '22 at 22:51

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I am able to solve this issue by adding a dummy .submodules file at root folder, and adding it to .gitignore

contain of .submoudles file:

[submodule "your_module_name"]
    path = paht_of_submodule/
    url = dummy_string_to_satisfy_vscode

More details here : https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/37947 and https://git-scm.com/docs/gitmodules

edited Aug 11 '22 at 22:51

Brian Burns

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answered May 29 '20 at 16:15

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I solve this issue by adding .gitmodules file – Bilal Tariq Aug 31 '21 at 11:41
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The documentation mentions that the path must NOT end with "/" – shwz Oct 19 '21 at 07:34

Visual studio code tracks one git repo only

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