devcontainers / devcontainers/cli
Question / Improvement: Incremental publishing of devcontainer features and `devcontainer-collection.json`
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## Description
We’re exploring whether the Dev Container CLI is intended to support publishing devcontainer features **one by one**.
When features are published individually, `devcontainer-collection.json` is regenerated each time and ends up containing **only the last published feature**. When all features are published together, the collection file is generated correctly.
This behavior seems consistent and intentional, so this is not a bug report, more a question and possible improvement discussion.
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## Question / Improvement Idea
Is publishing features incrementally an intended workflow?
If this use case is in scope, would it make sense to support:
- Merging newly published features into an existing `devcontainer-collection.json`, or
- A flag or documented approach for incremental publishing?
The motivation is mainly CI/CD robustness, where publishing one feature should not block others.
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If incremental publishing is intentionally unsupported, clarification or documentation around this would also be very helpful.
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