task.allowAutomaticTasks can't be set to auto anymore

[adriancuadrado]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

• VS Code Version: 1.101.1
• OS Version: Linux x64 6.11.0-26-generic

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Try to set the task.allowAutomaticTasks setting to auto
2. Value is not accepted. Valid values: "on", "off".

Back in the day this used to be available. Setting this to "auto" would cause VSCode to ask you each time instead of running tasks automatically or not running them at all. Now it's not anymore. I wonder what happened.

[vs-code-engineering]

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Happy Coding!

[meganrogge]

Hi, we never had support for auto. If you want to be asked each time, you should mark your parent folder as untrusted. Then, it'll ask you if you want to trust the folder and run tasks on folder open.

[adriancuadrado]

@meganrogge We actually did have support for auto. I even opened an issue back in the day because it didn't work properly. Check it out.

Would you consider reopening this issue?

[adriancuadrado]

@meganrogge This is, more specifically, the one commit in which auto got removed: 05ec316

File: src/vs/workbench/contrib/tasks/browser/task.contribution.ts
Line: 499

[meganrogge]

Thanks so much for the investigation. Workspace trust is our new way of managing this as I said above. I believe that's a good enough solution.