VSCode 'Git Status' not same in WSL.exe (compared with powershell)

Question

I switched the visual studio code terminal to the new built in Ubuntu bash shell via setting json entry...

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\wsl.exe"

but when I typed git status is was not the same result as I see in the default powershell? so those are out of sync for some reason.

Should I file a bug? why would that be? what should one do? the UI seems not to see they are out of sync either.

Answer 1

You're loading a different .gitconfig when running git in WSL. The .gitconfig is located in your home directory, in powershell this'd be C:\Users\My Name\.gitconfig and in WSL this would be /home/myname in your WSL, which is stored somewhere in a state folder in %localappdata%.

Check for differences between the .gitconfig files, you probably have line endings configured differently, like jessehouwing suggested in the comments.