[mrkeen]

Yikes, sounds like hell.

Corporate never seems to get that git is the kind of interface you want between your computer and their servers.

Then when you trash your computer you can just get it back to the state of being able to git.

[vanviegen]

They're not using the remote VM as a server but as the development machine though. You don't want to have to git commit and push every time you need to run or even type-check your code.

I think what GP describes is actually a pretty okay solution for orgs that don't want to provider their devs with local admin privileges.

[closeparen]

You can develop locally if you want to, and lots of people do, but it’s community support. The environment that someone else is obligated to fix for you is the remote one (which they can do by blowing away the container and then you recover your state from Git).