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Author: Mathiyarasy

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 Notable changes.
 
+## December 2025
+
+### [0.81.0]
+- devcontainer commands now use current directory as default workspace folder when not specified (https://github.com/devcontainers/cli/pull/1104)
+
 ## November 2025
 
 ### [0.80.2]

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
 	"name": "@devcontainers/cli",
 	"description": "Dev Containers CLI",
-	"version": "0.80.3",
+	"version": "0.81.0",
 	"bin": {
 		"devcontainer": "devcontainer.js"
 	},

src/spec-node/devContainersSpecCLI.ts

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ function provisionOptions(y: Argv) {
 		'docker-compose-path': { type: 'string', description: 'Docker Compose CLI path.' },
 		'container-data-folder': { type: 'string', description: 'Container data folder where user data inside the container will be stored.' },
 		'container-system-data-folder': { type: 'string', description: 'Container system data folder where system data inside the container will be stored.' },
-		'workspace-folder': { type: 'string', description: 'Workspace folder path. The devcontainer.json will be looked up relative to this path. If not provided, defaults to the current directory.' },
+		'workspace-folder': { type: 'string', description: 'Workspace folder path. The devcontainer.json will be looked up relative to this path. If --id-label, --override-config, and --workspace-folder are not provided, this defaults to the current directory.' },
 		'workspace-mount-consistency': { choices: ['consistent' as 'consistent', 'cached' as 'cached', 'delegated' as 'delegated'], default: 'cached' as 'cached', description: 'Workspace mount consistency.' },
 		'gpu-availability': { choices: ['all' as 'all', 'detect' as 'detect', 'none' as 'none'], default: 'detect' as 'detect', description: 'Availability of GPUs in case the dev container requires any. `all` expects a GPU to be available.' },
 		'mount-workspace-git-root': { type: 'boolean', default: true, description: 'Mount the workspace using its Git root.' },

src/spec-node/featuresCLI/resolveDependencies.ts

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export function featuresResolveDependenciesOptions(y: Argv) {
 	return y
 		.options({
 			'log-level': { choices: ['error' as 'error', 'info' as 'info', 'debug' as 'debug', 'trace' as 'trace'], default: 'error' as 'error', description: 'Log level.' },
-			'workspace-folder': { type: 'string', description: 'Workspace folder to use for the configuration.' },
+			'workspace-folder': { type: 'string', description: 'Workspace folder to use for the configuration.If --workspace-folder is not provided, this defaults to the current directory' },
 		});
 }
 

src/spec-node/templatesCLI/apply.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import path from 'path';
 export function templateApplyOptions(y: Argv) {
 	return y
 		.options({
-			'workspace-folder': { type: 'string', alias: 'w', default: '.', description: 'Target workspace folder to apply Template' },
+			'workspace-folder': { type: 'string', alias: 'w', description: 'Target workspace folder to apply Template. If --workspace-folder is not provided, this defaults to the current directory' },
 			'template-id': { type: 'string', alias: 't', demandOption: true, description: 'Reference to a Template in a supported OCI registry' },
 			'template-args': { type: 'string', alias: 'a', default: '{}', description: 'Arguments to replace within the provided Template, provided as JSON' },
 			'features': { type: 'string', alias: 'f', default: '[]', description: 'Features to add to the provided Template, provided as JSON.' },

src/test/container-features/featuresCLICommands.test.ts

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 import { assert } from 'chai';
 import path from 'path';
+import { existsSync } from 'fs';
 import { createPlainLog, LogLevel, makeLog } from '../../spec-utils/log';
 import { isLocalFile, readLocalFile } from '../../spec-utils/pfs';
 import { ExecResult, shellExec } from '../testUtils';
 import { getSemanticTags } from '../../spec-node/collectionCommonUtils/publishCommandImpl';
 import { getRef, getPublishedTags, getVersionsStrictSorted } from '../../spec-configuration/containerCollectionsOCI';
 import { generateFeaturesDocumentation } from '../../spec-node/collectionCommonUtils/generateDocsCommandImpl';
+import pkg from '../../../package.json';
 export const output = makeLog(createPlainLog(text => process.stdout.write(text), () => LogLevel.Trace));
 
-const pkg = require('../../../package.json');
-
 describe('CLI features subcommands', async function () {
 	this.timeout('240s');
 
@@ -441,8 +441,8 @@ describe('CLI features subcommands', async function () {
 				const absoluteCliPath = `npx --prefix ${absoluteTmpPath} devcontainer`;
 
 				// First check if the config file exists
-				const configExists = require('fs').existsSync('.devcontainer/devcontainer.json') ||
-					require('fs').existsSync('.devcontainer.json');
+				const configExists = existsSync('.devcontainer/devcontainer.json') ||
+					existsSync('.devcontainer.json');
 				assert.isTrue(configExists, 'Test config file should exist');
 
 				let result;