Commit button greyed out when merging in VSCode

Question

Since today, when doing a merge, the "Commit" button in VSCode is greyed out for me (see below screenshot). Committing via the command line works just fine, so it seems to be a VSCode issue.

Note that this is specific to committing a merge. Committing code normally still works fine.

VSCode Version: 1.72.0 on Mac

Anybody else got the same issue?

Answer 1

Update: the issue has since been closed as of the second recovery update for September 2022, presumably the bug has been fixed.

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There is an open issue on the Visual Studio Code repository that seems similar, although the user reported it occurs after resolving a merge conflict (though I don't think that is actually relevant, it seems to just be for merges in general based off the commit to fix it).

This seems to be a regression that is slated to be addressed in the recovery update:

Apologies for the inconvenience. This is a recent regression and will be fix in our recovery release later this week.

This is the actual change that was made for this. Thus, the recovery update for 1.72 should fix this.