Follow up: I have these containers installed: 1. devcontainers/rust:latest 2. devcontainers/typescript-node:latest 3. devcontainers/cpp:latest 4. texlive/texlive:latest 5. tensorflow/tensorflow:latest-gpu Only one of them wor-- .... Oh. Git keeps "detecting dubious ownership" over each project's .git/ for some reason, which prevents `git ls-files` from running, hence the problem. So this isn't really a bug per-se, it's more like a lack of clear enough errors. I could also really use some help with getting the ownership and gpg & ssh keychain stuff (commits always fail because Magit over TRAMP can't access my GPG or SSH private keys) figured out over TRAMP but I can get that help elsewhere. Anyway, when git ls-files fails, maybe the stderr output it produced should be printed instead of just trying to parse its empty stdin and crashing. On Sunday, May 26th, 2024 at 5:46 PM, alexis purslane wrote: > > Does the ssh transport work with the "more specialized" containers? > > > It took me a bit to get that set up, but no, it doesn't. Did essentially this: > > https://linuxhandbook.com/ssh-into-container/ > > Created a directory with some files in it in the homedir of the container, > and then added the project with the location as `/ssh:root@localhost#7655:Folder`. > It found the folder just fine (eg showed up in completion), but when I added > it and did project-find-files, I got the same error as usual. > > On Sunday, May 26th, 2024 at 5:26 PM, Dmitry Gutov dmitry@gutov.dev wrote: > > > On 26/05/2024 20:21, alexis purslane wrote: > > > > > Actually, no, installing git does not help resolve the problem > > > whatsoever. One works, the other two don't, but I can't tell why. The > > > one that works is my general purpose development container, and the > > > other two are more specialized, so that may be the origin of the > > > problem, but it doesn't explain what in particular is missing. What does > > > project.el rely on the host having installed? > > > > project-find-file just uses 'git ls-files' if it's in a repository, or > > 'find' otherwise. > > > > If your file name string juggling made things work correctly, it seems > > unlikely that the problem is in some missing software on the remote host. > > > > Does the ssh transport work with the "more specialized" containers?