Create a workspace file in the root of your repo

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🤷‍♂️ Why

If you do not use an explicit workspace, VC Code will implicitly create one for you. From a DevX perspective its not nice when things happen implicitly.

Important

If you don't use a named workspace, but just go with VS Code's implied one — and you add a new folder to the workspace. Then VS Code will see that as a new and different workspace and as an undesired side effect all your current and historic chat sessions with Copilot and, and all open terminal prompts are gone.

💬 Prompt

Save an empty workspace named 'default.code-space' in the root of the repo.

🛠️ D.I.Y.

From the Command Palette¹ in VS Code:

Workspaces:Save Workspace As... → default.code-workspace

🤖 Automate

.scripts/co-sample "Create a workspace file in the root of your repo" \
  batch1 \
  default.code-workspace

Footnotes

1. Command Palette shortcut
   Mac: ⬆⌘P (shift+command+P)
   Windows/Linux: ⬆^P (shift+ctrl+P) ↩