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Can you please elaborate on working remote with ssh? How exactly does it work and what do you do? Are you sshing into a server and work there with your VSCode G

• topspin 4y ago
  > How exactly does it work and what do you do? Local VSCode attaches to a remote VSCode backend. So you see the remote file system, remote shells and remote extensions running in the local editor. This works for both remote hosts and containers and is cross platform; you can develop on a remote Linux host/container using your Windows desktop, for example. This is invaluable for developing inside containers with isolated tooling, for instance. It isn't fragile; it just works and is so transparent that it's easy to get confused about where you're actually working.
  • randomluck040 4y ago
    That makes me wonder how I never heard of the integration before. This is going to take away so much pain from my workflow when working on Servers. I’ll take a look at it. Thanks for the explanation!
    • topspin 4y ago
      The only complaint I have with it is that it doesn't appear to work with Putty's pageant to authenticate SSH. You can use openssl's agent though.
    • mikewhy 4y ago
      Note it does take up a fair amount of room on the server. Mine is clocking in at 1.1GB. Oh wait, glad I checked because ~800MB of that is just old versions of the server.
      • randomluck040 4y ago
        Usually space isn’t the limiting factor but everything else is but thanks for the heads up