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Allow user to edit config dotfiles and not be overwritten

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
bash
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by locating how Code Builder creates or overwrites .bashrc, .profile, and .bash_logout; the issue names no entry point or test. Done means user edits to these dotfiles survive launching the environment, while the proposed .bashrc.local, .profile.local, and .bash_logout.local files remain available for customizations.

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Description

The .bashrc,.profile and .bash_logout files are overwritten every time you launch your Code Builder environment. We recommend that you do not edit these files because your changes will be lost. Instead, create new .bashrc.local,.profile.local and .bash_logout.local files to store your Dotfile customizations.

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Forks
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