Restored integrated terminal sessions not using workspace profile

[erhhung]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: YES

Version: 1.103.0 (Universal)
Commit: e3550cf
Date: 2025-08-06T21:40:10.271Z
Electron: 37.2.3
ElectronBuildId: 12035395
Chromium: 138.0.7204.100
Node.js: 22.17.0
V8: 13.8.500258-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 24.6.0

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create workspace-specific terminal profile in .vscode/settings.json that loads .bash_profile with shell functions and aliases which are specific to the project:

{
  "terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.osx": "bash",
  "terminal.integrated.profiles.osx": {
    "bash": {
      "path": "/usr/local/bin/bash",
      "args": ["--rcfile", ".vscode/.bash_profile"],
      "icon": "terminal-bash"
    }
  }
}

It doesn't really matter what .vscode/.bash_profile contains. A simple alias will demonstrate the issue.

2. Open a new integrated terminal window. The shell should be sourced with the contents of .vscode/.bash_profile. This can also be verified:

$ ps auxw | grep '\b'$$'\b'
erhhung  19604  0.0  0.0 34884824  21348 s013  Ss  4:03PM  0:01.87 /usr/local/bin/bash --rcfile .vscode/.bash_profile

3. Restart VSCode (or when prompted to restart for upgrade).

4. VSCode restores all previously opened windows, including workspace tabs and integrated terminal sessions. However, restored terminal sessions that were previously launched using a workspace-specific profile are no longer relaunched using that profile:

$ ps auxw | grep '\b'$$'\b'
erhhung  15265  1.7  0.0 35448024  22040 s009  Ss  3:50PM  0:03.20 /usr/local/bin/bash -l

The restored terminal session was instead launched using the global terminal profile, which lacks the additional shell functions and aliases needed for that workspace.

[anthonykim1]

Thanks for filing issue.
If you create new terminal after the restart, does it use your workspace profile? or are you stuck with global one?

[erhhung]

If I create new terminal, it will use the workspace profile—that's why I created a custom workspace profile to begin with. It's only terminal tabs that get restored upon restart that falls back to the global profile.