When Copilot creates a new file, I get this error: [error] [GitServiceImpl][getRepositoryFetchUrls] Failed to read remotes from .git/config: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat {{path_to_file}}

[gustavoaca1997]

• Copilot Chat Extension Version: 0.33.2
• VS Code Version: 1.106.1 1.106.2
• OS Version: Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise, 10.0.28000 N/A Build 28000
• Feature (e.g. agent/edit/ask mode): Agent mode
• Selected model (e.g. GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet): It happens with Claude 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro
• Logs:

[error] [GitServiceImpl][getRepositoryFetchUrls] Failed to read remotes from .git/config: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, stat 'c:\path\to\the\new\file'

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Ask Agent mode to do a task that requires creating new files
2. Include in your copilot-instructions.md to use #tools:runSubAgent as much as possible. I'm not sure if this is relevant.
3. At some point, the agent will hang forever in one task, and it fou look at the logs of Github Copilot Chat, you will always find an error like that one.

[vs-code-engineering]

Thanks for creating this issue! It looks like you may be using an old version of VS Code, the latest stable release is 1.106.2. Please try upgrading to the latest version and checking whether this issue remains.

Happy Coding!

[gustavoaca1997]

You are correct vs-code-engineering bot, I am actually using 1.106.2. I will update the description

[lszomoru]

@lramos15, could you please take an initial look at this? Thanks!

[lramos15]

These errors are harmless and would not be the cause of the hanging. But I will take a look at not having the error logged

[gustavoaca1997]

Hi @lramos15 . I am consistently getting this hang + the error message. If the error message is a red herring, could you please help me with the hanging?

[wilsonNg007]

@lramos15, this issue is causing Inline (next edit) completion not working from 1.107+ till 1.108 seen so far from multiple folks. See #286626 for details.

This will impact one of the highly used feature. Could you or someone please take a closer look? Thanks.