Vermyndax / Don't Put Git Repos in iCloud

Created 14 Feb 2022 Modified 31 Dec 2024

In one of those “duh” moments for today… I’ve been wrestling with an oddity in my git repositories with vscode. Sometimes when I open a git repo, it will just suddenly duplicate all of the files in the repo. It seemed to happen most of the time when I was opening a large git repository with vscode. Turns out that iCloud is to blame - something about vscode and iCloud Drive synchronization doesn’t get along. Solution: move your development directory out of ~/Documents or iCloud Drive. All will be well. They didn’t need to be there anyway. Duh.