fatal: unsafe repository ('' is owned by someone else)

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

• VS Code Version: 1.67
• OS Version: Win 21H2

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Use the openRepository command to open a repo that is not added to ‘safe.directory’
2. reference: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/6b241a6845d17992a5a754d5eaf32fd1824ef74e
3. There is a caught exception that states the following

'fatal: unsafe repository ('' is owned by someone else)
To add an exception for this directory, call:

	git config --global --add safe.directory 

Obviously, for security purposes, an extension wouldn’t want to just add this value for the user, so it would be nice to provide the same dialog that vsCode uses (though for a different purpose), that asks the user if they want to trust the repository.

You could certainly say that this is not a vsCode issue and that such a dialog shouldn’t be handled internally by vscode, and I wouldn’t be able to argue. In the meantime, I would probably look into prompting the user for trust and then use ‘child_process’ to exec git config global’ Could you at least point me to where I can pick up the error without just debugging all “CaughtExceptions”?

[msftrncs]

VS Code needs to at least acknowledge the unsafe repository status from GIT instead of indicating ‘no repository here, make one?’, when making one still won’t work.

[jameper]

I downgraded from VS Enterprise 2022 to VS Professional 2022 and I get this error. Running my new version of VS as Administrator fixed this issue for me