Any options for detecting Git Submodules and using a different folder icon?

[jacobrillema]

I think it would be nice to visually see if we are working inside a submodule inside a git repository and light up the folder icon to something different. Any thoughts on this one?

[PKief]

@jacobrillema I think that this is currently not possible to implement. Such a feature should be provided by the API of VSCode but I'm not sure in which way the git extension of Code can handle this in combination to an icon extension. As far as I can see in the Iteration Plan for January they are working on a "Submodule support" (there are no further details).

Feel free to create an issue to ask the VS Code Team in their repository.

[jacobrillema]

@PKief Thanks for the feedback. I am running the latest insiders build of VSCode and I see now where they are indicating a letter S on the far right of a directory and it looks like the color of the text of the directory is light blue. Seems like it could be more there to light it up, but should work for now. Hopefully they will add more support later for other submodule commands. I will go ahead and close this out for us. Thanks!