fix: re-install command on macOS via elevation #260321
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Fix situation when code command was overwritten to a different application and attempting to reinstall the command from VSCode would throw an error. This is because we tried to unlink as a normal user which would return
EACCES
. The action to create symlink is performed via elevation and-sf
will override an existing symlink, so we can instead retry directly with the elevation prompt path when the target is different./cc @isidorn