in principle, the

settings.json

inside a comitted repo should be general enough that they apply to everyone's workflow. if not, it should not be in the repo. of course, the world doesn't really always work like that, hence https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/15909 if its workable, you can have settings in the

*.code-workspace

file. for your personal settings, just create a local

*.code-workspace

file with the settings that you want. you could create a convention around it (eg. add

local.code-workspace

to .gitignore).