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by cassianoleal 1942 days ago
Do you have your projects cloned in the remote host?

I ask because I was excited about this prospect only to learn that I could only use Remote: Containers if codebase and container are on the same machine as the project workspace is just volume-mounted in the container.
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connor4312 1941 days ago
There are more options here. For example, you can attach to fully remote containers: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers-advance... or just attach to existing local containers that you can set up however you'd like.
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cassianoleal 1941 days ago
Yeah I have been using local containers and I really like the workflow.

I wasn't aware of that setup you linked. I'll give that a go, thanks!

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ryall 1941 days ago
Yeah I dusted off an old licence I had for resilio sync and use that to sync with my local machine.

You can get around this by running git clone inside your container as part of the startup process. But 1. It can add quite a delay to starting a container depending on the size of your codebase, and 2. Not all of my code is necessarily committed and pushed.

For me, syncing works well but I can see how it would not suit every use case

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cassianoleal 1941 days ago
Fair enough. I don't want to clone from within the container because I like the idea of being able to nuke it at any time and just start over from local code.

Probably similar reasons to what you mean by not having all code committed and pushed.

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