Thank you very much for the pull request and apologies for not getting back to you on this until now. The --autostash option was originally created for git pull --rebase (Git 2.6) and was only added to git pull --merge in Git 2.27 released in June 2020. Since we do have to support git versions prior to 2.27 we cannot merge the change in its current form. I will go ahead and close the PR, and will revisit this in the following months.

@lszomoru why close? why don't ask me to preserve the existing functionality for Git prior 2.27 , I believe most of the vscode users have a newer version of Git installed. I think it makes sense to use features when they are available. I think not doing it because of the 1% of users who have some old version of git installed is not reasonable IMO (sorry I'm not sure of 1% actually, but this version is really old).

I think it makes sense to use features when they are available.

I fully agree with taking advantage of new git functionality but by doing so we should not break existing functionality for users that are using older versions of VS Code. There are multiple places in the vscode.git where we check for the git version, so please feel free to pick up on this PR and implement this using a version check.

ok thanks, sorry im on vacation right now, I did put on my track, will do in a few weeks

@zardoy, no rush. Enjoy your vacation.

@zardoy, no rush. Enjoy your vacation.

ok thanks but should be ready now

@zardoy, I hope you don't mind but I pushed a commit to the PR implementing the changes that I have requested.

@zardoy, I hope you don't mind but I pushed a commit to the PR implementing the changes that I have requested.

No, you are the best, thank you for saving this pr! I'm so sorry as workdays started I became really busy I'm so sorry for not responding for the comment above in a reasonable time

@zardoy, no worries. Thanks for pushing to get this change in.