Use symlinks to snyc settings for Git and VS Code across devices

SymLinks.md

VS Code

User settings and snippets are stored in the APPDATA folder. Point these locations to a suitable location that is monitored by a cloud sync service.

cd %APPDATA%\code\user
mklink settings.json c:\users\<user>\onedrive\...\settings.json
mklink /D snippets c:\users\<user>\onedrive\...\snippets

Git

The global config file for Git is in the user folder. This is also a good place to put a global .gitignore file.

cd %HOMEDRIVE%\users\<user>\
mklink .gitconfig C:\users\<user>\OneDrive\...\.gitconfig
mklink .gitignore C:\users\<user>\OneDrive\...\.gitignore

The config files needs to point to the "tail" of the link for the global .gitignore.

[core]
	excludesfile = C:\\users\\<user>\\.gitignore