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Use devcontainer.json in subdirectories in monorepo #159
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Codespaces supports monorepo and multi-repo scenarios. Have you taken a look at this blog post ? If yes, then are you looking forward to another specification for mono repo? would like to clarify my understanding. |
@samruddhikhandale - I think the ask here is not to have to put everything under Instead the request is to allow a The VS Code Dev Containers extension is behind on implementing everything under |
Thanks for pointing this out. spec/docs/specs/devcontainer-reference.md Lines 19 to 21 in 9552d0f
After trying it out, I think this behavior of Codespaces is sufficiently attractive. But VSCode Dev Container doesn't seem to recognize |
@chrmarti Raised microsoft/vscode-remote-release#7548 but there's not much of a description, so can add that. You can upvote there! |
@eitsupi Would you like to keep this open for using any sub-folder or do you think we should close as a dupe of getting this into the Dev Containers extension (microsoft/vscode-remote-release#7548)? |
Closing in favor of |
We may want to work with different Dev Containers for each subdirectory. (e.g., a monorepo like https://github.com/apache/arrow)
In such a case, VSCode can recognize any
devcontainer.json
by opening a subdirectory, but Codespaces only recognizes those in the root directory.I am wondering if it is possible to put a new type configuration file (such as
.devcontainer-paths.json
?) in the root directory with the paths to eachdevcontainer.json
so that the tool is aware of each container definition.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: