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You don’t seem to understand that everything you said in your initial comment is completely possible (trivial) with those nix commands I showed you.

Podman:

• spin up a podman to use bash
• apt install git
• git checked those folders.
• deleted the container

nix:

• nix-shell -p git
• git checked those folders
• close the terminal/garbage collect

Does it make sense now? Or were you just really vague in your original comment and I misunderstood what you were even doing with your commands?

I massively updated my comment.

nix-shell -p git

Or some even fancier ones:

nix-store -qR $(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A git --no-out-link)

or this command (which nix people avoid generally because it creates files outside of the store):

nix path-info -rSh $(nix-build '<nixpkgs>' -A git --no-out-link)

or

nix-env -p /tmp/clean-profile -iA nixpkgs.git && nix-store -qR /tmp/clean-profile


# then

rm /tmp/clean-profile* 

# to get rid of the temp files

Sounds like you haven’t heard of nix.

In my opinion, the best practice is actually to stop using dev containers and start using nix flakes to provision your dev environment (including your vscode workspace).

Open source their entire software stack then!