Fully isolated / sandboxed VSCode profiles

[o-l-a-v]

I'd like the ability to have fully independant / isolated / sandboxed VSCode profiles to enable the ability to be signed in with different account for Git and settings sync. Each profile should act as a separate installation. Nothing except the application itself (VSCode) would be shared if using this feature.

That would allow us to easily have multiple Git profiles/accounts in VSCode. Related:

• Multiple GitHub account support #127967 (comment)

A suggested workaround by VSCode devs to mentioned related issue is to install VSCode and VSCode Insiders side by side. Problems with that:

• I don't want to use preview/insider version of VSCode.
• I have more than two accounts: My employer, one or multiple customers, my personal account.

[o-l-a-v]

Seems you can achieve this by creating a new profile with a different user data directory, then open VSCode from CMD like so:

code --user-data-dir "%APPDATA%\Code - Personal" --profile "Personal"

Currently testing this. If this works as I'd like maybe the feature request is to add the ability to optionally bind a different user data directory to a profile.

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Edit: Can't sign in to GitHub as sign in with web browser opens VSCode with default profile again. So this does not solve this FR.

[sandy081]

/duplicate

If it is to support multiple github accounts, then I would wait until this feature is implemented instead of doing workarounds. I have to say any wordaround will have the limitation of supporting multiple github accounts.

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[o-l-a-v]

/duplicate

If it is to support multiple github accounts, then I would wait until this feature is implemented instead of doing workarounds. I have to say any wordaround will have the limitation of supporting multiple github accounts.

Supporting multiple GitHub accounts is one use case. Maybe you just want everything but the application to be fully isolated/sandboxed for whatever reason? Like, syncing personal VSCode settings to personal profile (home and work PC). But work profile synced with a work account.

I got multiple GitHub accounts working by using device login btw, ref:

• Can't sign in to settings sync with GitHub if using non-default profile and --user-data-dir #209815 (comment)

[sandy081]

Please refer to this issue - #166176