vscode source control connected to remote host, is showing clock icon

Question

Suddenly today, when I connected to the same remote host through ssh, vscode starts showing clock sign. Despite local changes, git source control is not showing any changes

1. Initially index.lock file existed, and I deleted that, but did not help
2. I made sure git is enabled

Answer 1

The vscode seems to do git status -z -u (git default -uall) in the repository. It turns out I had added a lot of untracked files in the repository unintentionally, and the git command was taking a lot of time. So, I removed many of these unintended files, and this issue went away.