microsoft / microsoft/vscode-remote-release

Separate extensions in devcontainer.json into mandatory and personal

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Description

Currently, the only option is to set the list of "mandatory" extensions in the .devcontainer.json file.

Adding this file to a repository is impossible because engineers have different preferences for extensions.
It would be nice to have two categories:

"extensions": [
    "rust-lang.rust-analyzer"
],
"personal": [
   "personal.json"
]

The file personal.json would contain a list of personal extensions and be added to .gitignore. Ideally, if the file does not exist, VS Code would ignore it.

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