Sublime Merge on Windows with repositories in WSL2

[jan.schatz]

I am using Sublime Merge for Windows. My repositories are inside the file system of WSL2.
Sublime Merge says I cannot pull, because I have unstaged changes. It doesn’t show any changes itself and also the command-line Git inside WSL doesn’t show any changes.
I tried to change the “Git Binary” setting to “wsl git” in order to use the Git from WSL, but that doesn’t work either.
What can I do to make this work?

[srbs]

I’m not sure if WSL 2 is fully supported yet:

Issue: Support using git from Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

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[adityaprasoon]

In my experience it is much better to install Sublime Merge in WSL itself. You will need some X server running on windows to open the UI. Xming and VcXsrv both works fine.
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