Local Mounts — Deprecated

⚠️ This feature has been removed. It was renamed and superseded by dotfiles-sync.

Existing images that already pulled ghcr.io/helpers4/devcontainer/local-mounts:1 keep working from their local cache. New builds referencing this feature will fail to resolve — you must migrate.

Full documentation is preserved on the website: helpers4.dev/dev-container/deprecated/local-mounts

Migration

Replace the feature reference in your devcontainer.json:

 "features": {
-    "ghcr.io/helpers4/devcontainer/local-mounts:1": {}
+    "ghcr.io/helpers4/devcontainer/dotfiles-sync:1": {}
 }

The username option is identical. Runtime behavior is the same, with extra files supported (cargo, pip, yarn, pnpm, gh CLI prefs, …) and opt-in cloud credentials (AWS profiles, kube config, Docker auth, gh OAuth token).

See the dotfiles-sync README for full documentation.

Why was it renamed?

local-mounts only described the mechanism (bind mounts). The new name dotfiles-sync describes the intent — synchronizing developer dotfiles with a safe merge strategy. The merge logic was rewritten to be safe across local, WSL, macOS, Codespaces, Gitpod, and DevPod.

Why is this folder still here?

So that anyone landing on the GitHub URL (https://github.com/helpers4/devcontainer/tree/main/deprecated/local-mounts) gets a clear migration pointer instead of a 404. There is intentionally no devcontainer-feature.json and no install.sh — the feature is not published anymore.

Last published version

The last local-mounts release was v1.0.9. It is still pullable from GHCR if needed, but no further updates will be published — please migrate to dotfiles-sync.