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I use the GNU Autotools toolchain to generate VSCode folders. We are not the same!

(The first sentence isn't a joke.)

I have done that in the past to provide zero-setup development environments for our internal python packages.

What's the problem with the approach?

Do you also have .DS_Store tracked? If not, you are obviously not who the commenter is referring to and missing the point

They don't know what a global git ignore is and if you tell them they don't care.