Extension does not sync anything.

[bitfl0wer]

Platform: Linux x86-64, Fedora Workstation 41
Editor: VSCodium 1.96.4
Extension Version: 0.16.0

The extension does not sync anything.

/home/$user/.config/VSCodium/User/settings.json:

{
	"window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
	"window.customTitleBarVisibility": "auto",
	"window.newWindowProfile": "flori",
	"syncSettings.resources": ["settings", "extensions", "keybindings"],
	"syncSettings.gitInitMessage": "profile({{profile}}@{{hostname}}): init -- {{now|date:iso}}",
	"syncSettings.gitUpdateMessage": "profile({{profile}}@{{hostname}}): update -- {{now|date:iso}}",
	"syncSettings.keybindingsPerPlatform": false
}

Sync Settings settings.yml:

hostname: "starforge"
profile: flori
repository:
  type: git
  url: https://github.com/bitfl0wer/vscodium-config.git

Description: When specifying "syncSettings.resources", the extension does not sync anything. When this setting is not present, the extension does sync some things; however, it does not sync all the things I'd like it to. It seems like setting the syncSettings.resources parameters breaks syncing. Below are log outputs of trying to sync (upload) without this parameter present, then trying to sync (upload) after setting the parameter:

[info] serialize to: /home/star/.config/VSCodium/User/globalStorage/zokugun.sync-settings/repository
[info] serialize extensions
[info] serialize snippets
[info] serialize UI state
[info] serialize keybindings
[info] serialize settings
[info] serialize done
[info] commit: profile(flori@starforge): update -- 2025-01-26T11:39:43.346Z
[info] push to remote
[info] push done
---vvv-parameter present---
[info] serialize to: /home/star/.config/VSCodium/User/globalStorage/zokugun.sync-settings/repository
[info] serialize done | < nothing was serialized?
[info] commit: profile(flori@starforge): update -- 2025-01-26T11:44:04.025Z
[info] push to remote
[info] push done

After syncing with the parameter present, this is what the repository looks like:

[daiyam]

I've just retested. it's working on my machine.

• After an upload, can you try the command > Sync Settings: Reveal the profile in the file explorer.
  You should see a data directory
• git push would need to work with https://github.com/bitfl0wer/vscodium-config.git.
  I would recommend to use the ssh url [email protected]:bitfl0wer/vscodium-settings.git

[bitfl0wer]

Thank you for your quick reply!

After an upload, can you try the command > Sync Settings: Reveal the profile in the file explorer.
You should see a data directory

A recursive tree of that path shows:

tree -aR
.
├── data
├── .gitkeep
└── .sync.yml

2 directories, 2 files

git push would need to work with https://github.com/bitfl0wer/vscodium-config.git.

It does work, even using HTTPS instead of SSH. As mentioned, syncing of some resources works, if the parameter is not present. The extension can push to the GitHub repository just fine.

[daiyam]

I did test with "syncSettings.resources": ["settings", "extensions", "keybindings"],

I don't understand why you have the issue. I copy pasted your settings...
I will add a log for the read syncSettings.resources to verify its value is correctly read.

[gaotako]

I have a similar issue of incomplete syncing when using VSCode server on an AWS SageMaker instance (For VS Code on local machine, it is fine), here is the editor version info:

code-server: v4.16.1
Code: 1.80.2
Commit: 2ccd690cbff1569e4a83d7c43d45101f817401dc
Date: 2023-07-31T17:15:21.760Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/132.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

The issue is that for either git remote (SSH) or git local sync, only extensions are synced, for settings and other staff, they are not synced regardless of syncSettings.resources, here is a local sync test config:

hostname: ""
profile: main
#:||repository:
#:||    type: git
#:||    # if on developement instance, use SSH (the first) instead of HTTPS (the second, default)
#:||    url: [email protected]:gaotako/CodeServerSyncSettings.git
#:||    # url: https://github.com/gaotako/CodeServerSyncSettings.git
#:||    branch: main
repository:
    type: git
    path: ~/SageMaker/RuntimeCommand/src/CodeServerSyncSettings
    branch: main

And here is the directory tree after upload:

$ ls -R ~/SageMaker/RuntimeCommand/src/CodeServerSyncSettings
/home/ec2-user/SageMaker/RuntimeCommand/src/CodeServerSyncSettings:
profiles

/home/ec2-user/SageMaker/RuntimeCommand/src/CodeServerSyncSettings/profiles:
main

/home/ec2-user/SageMaker/RuntimeCommand/src/CodeServerSyncSettings/profiles/main:
data

/home/ec2-user/SageMaker/RuntimeCommand/src/CodeServerSyncSettings/profiles/main/data:
extensions.yml

P.S. On remote instance, I use my customized XDG_HOME settings, thus some files are not in their default location, not sure if this will have any influence.

[daiyam]

@gaotako As you have described, for remote/server, only the extensions are synced. This is the expected behavior since keybindings, settings, snippets,uiState are only relevant for the client app.
The Web Remote isn't yet supported.

[bitfl0wer]

As I am now getting notified of this again;
Is there anything you'd like me to do? Do you require more information or anything? Happy to provide it, if so :)

[daiyam]

@bitfl0wer I've added a log, so you should be able to see the list of resources to be serialized:

---vvv-parameter present---
[info] serialize to: /home/star/.config/VSCodium/User/globalStorage/zokugun.sync-settings/repository
[info] resources: | < list of resources to serialize

Thx

[bitfl0wer]

Output:

[info] repository: {"type":"git","url":"https://github.com/bitfl0wer/vscodium-config.git"}
[info] profile: flori
[info] hostname: starforge
[info] serialize to: /home/star/.config/VSCodium/User/globalStorage/zokugun.sync-settings/repository
[info] resources: settings, extensions, keybindings
[info] serialize extensions
[info] serialize keybindings
[info] serialize settings
[info] serialize done
[info] commit: profile(flori@starforge): update -- 2025-02-13T13:15:10.426Z
[info] push to remote
[info] push done

data dir:

tree -aR
.
├── data
│   ├── extensions.yml
│   └── settings.json
├── .gitkeep
├── profile.yml
└── .sync.yml

2 directories, 5 files

This looks better than before. However: My user settings and keybindings are still missing somehow...

[daiyam]

@bitfl0wer The user settings are there: settings.json
Do you have any custom keybindings?

[daiyam]

@gaotako If you want to further discuss your problem, can you open a new issue (since it's different from this one). Thx

[bitfl0wer]

I think it's better now. Thank you!