Having a hard time adding user collaborators to my workspace
Hello, just started tinkering with Coder today. I already have my workspace setup using the Official Docker Devcontainer templates. However, I don't see how I could add a user to collaborate over code. Is this a strictly premium feature or do I need to tinker with Terraform code (to which I was just introduced)?
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Help needed
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Coder (v2)
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Linux
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@クリス Gari - Where did you get the impression Coder was for dev collaboration?
Just an FYI, this is what is offered in the docs about collaboration.
What Coder is not - Coder is not a collaboration platform. You can use Git with your favorite Git platform and dedicated IDE extensions for pull requests, code reviews, and pair programming.And then there is this:
Users can connect to workspaces using SSH or via workspace applications like code-server, facilitating collaboration and remote access.However, this is about working on the same code base in a second workspace (another workspace created from the same template, to work on the same dev tasks), so in parallel. More on that below. AFAIK, your best bet is Live Share for pair programming (assuming you are using VSCode). In other words, it isn't possible to add a second user into your own open workspace AFAIK. Other users can only use the same workspace (via the template) to develop on the same code base in parallel. However, the repo each dev works on should be its own branch i.e. normal dev collaboration on a single code base via Git. The devs won't see each other's changes, until there is a merge or the one pulls the other's changes, after it was pushed to origin. If you want pair programming, i.e. both devs working on the exact same code base in the same workspace, then you need Live Share or something similar.
Thank you. thread can be closed
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