Visual Code advertised itself as this amazing IDE, and I was totally sold.
Can use Git within it, can have a terminal in it, doesn't eat all memory, soldddd.
Except Git _only works with SSH when it has no passphrase_
HOW DID THAT GET PAST RELEASE.
Still can't get the git ignore to work for shit, but this is significantly better than it was
Apparently the instant I post any complaint to Mastodon, I find a fix for the problem.
So the git ignore does work, it just didn't like the formatting of the automatic one.