microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release
Add `open` command to `@vscode/dev-container-cli`
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Description
This issue is a follow-up of https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/5415#issuecomment-981373936.
Now the devcontainer cli is available to be installed from npm with npm install --global @vscode/dev-container-cli, but it's missing the open command.
My use case is to have it installed as part of my dotfiles, so that I get the devcontainer command installed every time I bootstrap a new computer with my dotfiles installation script (which also manages to install VS Code, by the way).
However, I use a similar dotfiles experience as a managed development environment for the my team, and there, I have a guide where I tell them to:
- Install our dotfiles to bootstrap their dev env
- Clone any of our company's repository
devcontainer openit
But it would be too cumbersome if I had to write instructions like:
- First open VS Code
- F1 -> Install Devcontainer CLI
- Answers the questions on the screen
And then get back to the part where devcontainer open would actually work.
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