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by tomnipotent 482 days ago
It's very common for shared project-specific setting files to be stored in ".vscode" that are used by all developers on the project, including launch/task configurations. VSCode settings are hierarchical and composable (non-scalar keys are merged).
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mvanbaak 482 days ago
if one would use ".editorconfig" it works with multiple editors/IDEs. See editorconfig.org for more info :)
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zelphirkalt 481 days ago
I am aware of that. Yet I don't see other cohorts doing that with their editor/IDE of choice. It seems to be mostly the "I don't want to configure my tools" subset, who does that. What if I switch my tool of choice 2-3 times? Do I get to commit all my project management IDE/editor specific files too? How much stuff do we want to accumulate in the git repo?
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tomnipotent 481 days ago
> Do I get to commit all my project management IDE/editor specific files too

Yes, if those files apply to all team members using the same tool absolutely check them in. What's the problem? It reads to me like maybe you don't know what these files are actually used for and why a team benefits from sharing them.

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zelphirkalt 480 days ago
The whole point is, that not everyone is in the bubble of VS Code users, and not everyone wants to have that stuff on their machine, and not everyone is benefiting from it either. Imagine cloning some repo and having extra stuff in there from 3 different IDEs and 3 different editors. This stuff clutters up the repo.
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