See changes from nested repositories in Source Control in Visual Studio Code [duplicate]

Question

How to configure VS Code to show changes from multiple repositories?

I have following structure:

- Repository 1 (git repo)
|- src
|- test
|- ...
|- Widgets (git repo)
   |- src
   |- test
   |- ...

Both Repository 1 and Widgets have .git folder. In "Source control" I can see only changes from Repository 1, but not Widgets.

Also in "Source control - Source Control Providers" I can see only Repository 1.

I tried to configure the both Repository 1 and Widgets as work space folders, but it didn't help. In GitLens extension I see both repos independently, but cannot commit from there.

Answer 1

For now nested repositories are not supported out of the box. There is already an issue on GitHub - Git: Support nested git repositories.

Check out the issue for some workarounds on this, like adding folders in reverse (inner folders first) into workspace or using .gitmodules. Also give it some buzz so that it hopefully get implemented.

Answer 2

An update on the issue reported by @mimo in his answer. It has been closed as completed and the changes will be in vscode v1.72. From 1.72 Release Notes: discover nested git repositories:

Discover nested git repositories

Addressing a long standing feature request, this milestone we have made changes to the repository discovery code in order to add sup port for nested git repositories. Depending on the location of the nested repositories, one may need to modify the git.repositoryScanMaxDepth setting.