Python extension causing all git operations to fail

[kossyrev-bg]

Type: Bug

In the last 2 days, I have this issue where after editing code for a bit, if I attempt to sync my changes, I get the little horizontal blue bar scrolling forever and things seem to stop updating.

For example, once this "hanging" starts, even if I undo all the changes in the file, it still shows up under "changes" in the source control. Github copilot also stops giving any suggestions and times out when I use the Ctrl+I interface. And gitlens refuses to load any info on my repo, also just hanging indefinitely.

Restarting VSCode or restarting extension host fixes the problem temporarily. Then it'll work for a bit (a few minutes) before the hanging issue begins again.

Note that I can continue using Git just fine in the VSCode terminal while this goes on. It doesn't seem to happen when I turn off all extensions, but I didn't test extensively with this.

VS Code version: Code 1.96.0 (138f619, 2024-12-11T02:29:09.626Z)
OS version: Linux x64 6.2.0-26-generic
Modes:

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Extensions (47)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
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preview-html	ana	1.0.0
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go	gol	0.44.0
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btree	jan	1.6.0
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isort	ms-	2023.10.1
python	ms-	2024.22.0
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remote-ssh	ms-	0.116.1
remote-ssh-edit	ms-	0.87.0
cpptools	ms-	1.22.11
live-server	ms-	0.4.15
remote-explorer	ms-	0.4.3
remote-server	ms-	1.5.2
vscode-react-native	msj	1.13.0
autodocstring	njp	0.6.1
postman-for-vscode	Pos	1.5.1
vscode-yaml	red	1.15.0
rust-analyzer	rus	0.3.2220
multi-command	ryu	1.6.0
markdown-preview-enhanced	shd	0.8.15
vsc-workspace-sidebar	ske	2.1.0
even-better-toml	tam	0.19.2
tilt	Tch	1.0.9
tiltfile	til	0.0.4
pdf	tom	1.2.2
vscode-lldb	vad	1.11.1
markdown-pdf	yza	1.5.0
vscode-proto3	zxh	0.5.5

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[einarwar]

I have a similar issue, started a couple of days ago. Everything works fine, when suddenly without seemingly any trigger, a blue loading bar is shown in the source-control button on the sidebar, and a blue "waiting" icon is shown, see image.

Restarting VSCode solves the problem temporarily, but the problem comes back after some minutes

[kossyrev-bg]

UPDATE: I was able to make the issue go away by disabling the "Python" plug in VSCode, but obviously that's not ideal since it disables all the python goodies. Not sure if I should post this issue elsewhere.

[einarwar]

Thanks for the info @kossyrev-bg. Nice that you isolated it to that extension.

I guess a more appropriate place to make an issue would be the repo for the vscode-python extension: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python

[kossyrev-bg]

Will do @einarwar , thanks

[kossyrev-bg]

Opened a ticket microsoft/vscode-python#24633