I'm happily running Git bash in VSCode 1.53.2 on Windows 10 with:
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",
The "Terminal: Clear" command (workbench.action.terminal.clear, which I have bound to Control-L) clears not only the screen but also the scrollback buffer, as expected, so trying to scroll up does nothing because there is nothing to show.
How can I reproduce this with a shell command?
The clear command does not clear the scrollback, neither does reset. These commands work by outputting escape sequences to the screen. Since the terminal thinks it is "TERM = xterm-256color", the relevant escape sequence should be the one output by the shell command
printf "\e[3J"
which works on all other xterm emulations (and is part of clear's output). In VSCode it does not clear the scrollback but, oddly, resurrects one screenful of previously cleared scrollback.
