VSCode reformat code due fallback to default settings without resolving workspace symlink

[messense]

Say I have a project in ~/workspace/project, for disk space usage reason I had to move it to another disk say /export/data/workspace/project, so I created a symlink to avoid having to changing paths in VSCode: ~/workspace -> /export/data/workspace, now ruff in VSCode starts to reformat code on save and conflicts with ruff-format in pre-commit, the ruff language server logs shows that it still thinks the workspace is at ~/workspace/project without resolving symlinks so it use the default settings as fallback, which is a bit annoying.

[ntBre]

Thanks for the report! It does seem surprising that we wouldn't resolve the symlink, but I'm not too familiar with this part of the code base. Maybe @dhruvmanila would have an idea of what's going on.

I tried to reproduce this with a very simple setup with a symlink in a sibling directory (/tmp/linked -> /tmp/tmp.GvvPAXW5Eg) and saw the settings in both directories, but the issue might be more subtle than that. I think any debug logs you can share would be helpful!

[dhruvmanila]

now ruff in VSCode starts to reformat code on save and conflicts with ruff-format in pre-commit

Can you say a bit more about what's the conflicting part? Is it that there's some configuration mismatch between what Ruff sees via the editor and via the pre-commit hook because of this symlink? Can you share some information about this?

[messense]

pre-commit would reformat vscode formatted file and vice versa, here is the ruff lsp server logs:

2026-02-26 15:41:43.996706333  INFO Registering workspace: /home/ubuntu/workspace/project
2026-02-26 15:41:43.997131786  INFO Configuration file watcher successfully registered
2026-02-26 15:41:49.874873399  WARN No settings available for file:///export/data/ubuntu/workspace/project/example.py - falling back to default settings

and ruff debug info in vscode:

workspace_root_folders = [
    "/home/ubuntu/workspace/project",
]
indexed_configuration_files = [
    "/home/ubuntu/workspace/project/ruff.toml"
]

works fine when the project is opened in vscode from /export/data/ubuntu/workspace/project directly.