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Provide example for how to use dotfiles with the cli

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
cli, documentation

Research direction

Start by reading the CLI help and the repository's existing documentation and examples to find where usage examples belong. Document a clear dotfiles installation example for devcontainers, and consider the work done when a newcomer can follow it to install dotfiles using the CLI.

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Description

It's unclear from the CLIs help, and the documentation and examples in the repo how to use the cli to have dotfiles installed in devcontainers. It'd be helpful if there was an example for how to do that documented since it's a common feature use.

Dominant language
TypeScript
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Merged PRs (30d)
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