Official support for tracking VS Code configurations, to replicate config on different machines.

[trusktr]

At the moment, there doesn't seem to be any official effort by the VS Code team to make VS Code configuration trackable for replicating VS Code configuration on different machines (f.e. installing a new OS, getting up and running with the same settings, extensions, etc).

Here's a question on Stack Overflow. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59779317

There are community efforts, for example the Settings Sync extension, but unless I missed it, there isn't anything official from the VS Code team. Not even .gitignore files to tell people what not to track in ~/.vscode or ~/.config/Code/User.

(Sidenote, Atom ships with .gitignore files in the config folders, so tracking the config is easy, and people are more confident they won't track anything they don't need to).

So this is a feature request for the VS Code team to make tracking of VS Code configuration an official feature of VS Code (even if that means simply placing .gitignore files inside the config folders).

[sandy081]

/duplicate

#2743

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