Git status not showing for projects linked from Windows side to WSL

[RankkaApina]

I was wondering why some of my git projects show perfectly in the prompt and some others don't. I'm not 100 % sure, but to me it looks like that it's the projects that I've linked from Windows side to my WSL that don't show up. This seems to be new in one of the last upgrades, although it was erratic before (so I actually do prefer the new way, as it seems to be less erratic even if not all my projects show the status).

Is there a way to make the git status show up for the projects on the dark side (windows) or is that just not a feature at the moment?

[JanDeDobbeleer]

@RankkaApina check if git status works. As git blocks folders outside of the trusted drive by default. Their source is different from where you're calling from.

[RankkaApina]

Git status does work, I have no issues with git except this. Although now it started working on my work laptop, but doesn't for my home laptop, which is weird, since there differences in the setup are minimal (and I even tried with using my work theme and it doesn't help the issue at home). But it seems this is rather an issue somewhere else than oh my posh... just need to figure out where...

To be fair, it's a minor inconvenience.

[RankkaApina]

I think I figured out why it's not showing. If I print the debug log, I see that it's trying to call git.exe (which I don't have installed, I have git just on the wsl side, but this is how it's at work also)
[ERROR] 19:06:03.239 terminal.go:HasCommand:323 → exec: "git.exe": executable file not found in $PATH

So, it's trying to find the git on windows side, not sure how to make it understand to look on the wsl side (and why it does at work...).

[lewis-yeung]

@RankkaApina That's by design. It prefers the Windows git.exe since there is a performance limit in I/O between Windows and WSL 2. To make it use the Linux git executable, you have to set native_fallback to true under properties.

[RankkaApina]

Thanks, I'll try this! I wonder how this worked automatically on my work laptop, though... but nevermind, if this fixes it, then that's awesome!

[RankkaApina]

Just wanted to let you know: this works perfectly!

So, this was the only issue in my case. I wasn't expecting your answer to be wrong, but I might've messed up something somewhere else or there's always a chance that at work there are issues due to firewalling things (I'm also only allowed to use WSL1, which has caused some unexpected issues that need workarounds).