I have a project for which I have specific extensions enabled and specific settings configured. These aren't required by the project - it's my personal customization which boosts my productivity.
Multiple people may work on the project, each of them with their own customizations or different editors/IDEs.
Sometimes I need to work on a few tasks in parallel within the project. Branch switching isn't an option here, since it might require time consuming installations on each switch. Due to this, I have several project instances, clones.
The problem:
How do I preserve and tweak my customizations across multiple project instances efficiently?
Keeping it all in workspace settings in .vscode isn't an option for obvious reasons - each change would have to migrated to all the other project instances.
Profiles are good, but only for project-specific changes. When the tweak is general - it should affect all profiles, i.e. a change in semantic token coloring - then again, I need to migrate it to all other profiles.
I was thinking about making a profile settings merging script/extension, but it seems like an overkill.
I know there's Workspace feature. I tried it briefly and I didn't like it. Having multiple explorers and source control panes for the same project is confusing for me. I prefer simplicity here.
Is there some solution I have missed? If there isn't, will there be one? Like profile inheritance or ability to edit the default profile?
gjsjohnmurray
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The situation
I have a project for which I have specific extensions enabled and specific settings configured. These aren't required by the project - it's my personal customization which boosts my productivity.
Multiple people may work on the project, each of them with their own customizations or different editors/IDEs.
Sometimes I need to work on a few tasks in parallel within the project. Branch switching isn't an option here, since it might require time consuming installations on each switch. Due to this, I have several project instances, clones.
The problem:
How do I preserve and tweak my customizations across multiple project instances efficiently?
Keeping it all in workspace settings in
.vscodeisn't an option for obvious reasons - each change would have to migrated to all the other project instances.Profiles are good, but only for project-specific changes. When the tweak is general - it should affect all profiles, i.e. a change in semantic token coloring - then again, I need to migrate it to all other profiles.
I was thinking about making a profile settings merging script/extension, but it seems like an overkill.
I know there's Workspace feature. I tried it briefly and I didn't like it. Having multiple explorers and source control panes for the same project is confusing for me. I prefer simplicity here.
Is there some solution I have missed? If there isn't, will there be one? Like profile inheritance or ability to edit the default profile?