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Timeline (git log) shows nothing for nested git repositories

See original GitHub issue

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

VS Code Version: 1.72.2
OS Version: 18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Steps to Reproduce:

Provide a git repository that contains multiple nested git repositories
Set "git.repositoryScanMaxDepth": -1
The timeline doesn’t display the git commit log

The output of git shows the following:

[2022-10-24T12:52:05.863Z] > git log --format=%H%n%aN%n%aE%n%at%n%ct%n%P%n%D%n%B -z -n21 -- /absolute/path/to/file.hpp [110ms]

If I execute this command from within the nested repository it shows the git log correctly. My assumption is that this command is executed from some top level directory.

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Created a year ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

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dprogmcommented, Oct 24, 2022

My directory structure is as follows: repo_dirs top_repo has a sub directory called sub_dir that consists of two repositories which are symlinks.

Here is a screenshot of how it looks like in vs code: repo_vs_code

Note that the timeline is empty although it should display my last commit of file2.txt. I hope this helps so far.

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dprogmcommented, Oct 24, 2022

Unfortunately I only have a screenshot of a working example. You find the timeline view in the red rectangle. Should I provide a minimal reproduction case for the issue?