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VSCode + GitHub + portable + remote devcontainers = GH auth flow fails to call back proper window #224306

Closed Dan-JoeLopez closed 1 month ago

Dan-JoeLopez commented 1 month ago

Please see the original ticket: https://support.github.com/ticket/personal/0/2900581

I have a bug for a very specific scenario:

Portable VSCode Portable Git docker CLI (cli only with env vars to redirect calls to a remote docker host) GH co-pilot Connection to VM where VS code is running over citrix + terminal services* not sure if this is a relevant part, but it is the setup I am using, so I thought it worth mentioning When clicking the authentication in VSCode, the auth flow opens a GH page to authenticate. After successful authentication, the callback opens a new local VSCode session that is signed in, but disconnected from the devcontainer. When you try to re-open the devconatiner, a new instance of VSCode is opened for the devcontainer, but it is not signed in to GH co-pilot.

TylerLeonhardt commented 1 month ago

This is because the portable install of VS Code does not install the protocol handler: vscode://...

You can work around this by cancelling the existing auth flow (you should see a notification with a cancel button) and that will show another notification asking you to sign in a different way. Go through that flow and this should work

Dan-JoeLopez commented 1 month ago

I've tried that before and it didn't work, but I couldn't remember exactly what happened., so I just tried it again. It tries to do a "local server" activation? Which loads a blank page: image

I also previously tried cancelling again and going through the next alternative, which didn't work when I previously discovered this issue. Now it seems I can login and use my device code.