As far as I know, at the time of this writing, there is no such user-facing feature in VS Code to disable this.
This has been raised as a feature-request at least once in the past: ability to hide the badge under the explorer icon #156695, but it didn’t receive enough community support in time to get added to the backlog. You could try raising it again if you really want the feature.
It might be related to another source control provider or extension you have installed that tracks file changes. If you’re using another source control system, check its settings either in the VS Code settings (JSON) file or through the extension’s own settings within the UI.
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As far as I know, at the time of this writing, there is no such user-facing feature in VS Code to disable this.
This has been raised as a feature-request at least once in the past: ability to hide the badge under the explorer icon #156695, but it didn’t receive enough community support in time to get added to the backlog. You could try raising it again if you really want the feature.
It might be related to another source control provider or extension you have installed that tracks file changes. If you’re using another source control system, check its settings either in the VS Code settings (JSON) file or through the extension’s own settings within the UI.