Stop Visual Studio Code from Opening Submodules in Source Control View

Question

Whenever I open a Git project that contains submodules, VSCode additionally opens all submodules in the source control view. This clutters the source control view, especially for projects with 10+ submodules.

How do I make VSCode only open the current "root" Git project?

Here, for example, accel... is the "root" project and unive... and matpl... are submodules.

I can go through all the submodules and close them manually, but this is pretty tedious.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use the git.detectSubmodules setting like this:

{
  "git.detectSubmodules": false
}