.gitconfig not copied to remote container

[slaytanic]

I'm using devcontainers with Docker on Windows, according to the documentation at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers#_sharing-git-credentials-with-your-container it says .gitconfig is copied from the host, this does not seem to be the case when using Git for Windows at least which stores .gitconfig in C:\Users\<username>

• VSCode Version: 1.63.2
• Local OS Version: Windows 10.0.19044
• Remote OS Version: mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/ruby:0-3
• Remote Extension/Connection Type: Docker

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Run inside a devcontainer
2. .gitconfig is missing

Does this issue occur when you try this locally?: Yes
Does this issue occur when you try this locally and all extensions are disabled?: Yes

[chrmarti]

Could you rebuild the container and append the log from that? (F1 > Remote-Containers: Show Container Log)

[slaytanic]

Sure, here it is
devcontainer.log

[chrmarti]

Do you have "remote.containers.copyGitConfig" set to false either in the devcontainer.json or your user settings?

[slaytanic]

Do you have "remote.containers.copyGitConfig" set to false either in the devcontainer.json or your user settings?

I don't, but I just noticed that on a different project it was working and at first I assumed it was because it was not using docker-compose, so I tried creating a new project with compose, and one without it and it works as expected on both.

nocomposetest.log
composetest.log

I'm not sure what could be making it skip that step on that other project. If you've got any other pointers on things to check I'd appreciate it, if not I guess it can be chalked off to something of the environment.

[chrmarti]

Maybe double-check your local home folder has a .gitconfig file. The only other way for there to be no output about it in the log seems to be when there is no such file locally.

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