Inability to interact with git/code both locally and in devcontainer

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Summary

The vscode devcontainer uses root, which can lead to permission issues when also interacting with the repo/code locally.

Expected behavior

I want to be able to edit files locally and also commit locally and not only in the devcontainer, because I might have some tooling which is easier to use locally on the host and not in the container.

Current behavior

Currently, our devcontainer is running as root, which makes handling of a lot of things quite a bit easier during setup.
But it leads to the issue, that when commiting/editing all changes of the mounted directory will be done as the root user.
This leads to inability to commit or interact with the code locally without also using the root user on the host.

Possible Solution

Setup of user in Dockerfile with "$(id -u):$(id -g)" and setup of passwordless sudo access in /etc/sudoers or /etc/sudoers.d/*