Start Gitpod in specific subdirectory for explorer sidebar

[chriswyatt1]

Hi, this is probably trivial.

I have searched through all the issues and the docs, but how do you start an environment in a specific subdirectory within the explorer side bar in VS code?

In the following repo (https://github.com/seqeralabs/nf-training-public/tree/new_container_nextflow_22.09.7), I want to start in the /workspace/nf-training-public/nf-training folder (which I already cd into in the yml), so that I do not see all the build files in the head directory /workspace. I tried setting these in the gitpod yml:

workspaceLocation: "./nf-training" workspaceLocation: "/workspace/nf-training" checkoutLocation: "./nf-training"

But this just removes the explorer bar completely on the left hand side.

[axonasif]

Hey @ewels, this here might help.

We should probably get this documented well.

[ewels]

Awesome - this looks ideal, we'll give it a try. Thanks @axonasif !

[chriswyatt1]

Awesome, worked great, thanks @axonasif