Docker Bind Mounts Fail to Hot-Reload Over SSH Without VS Code Remote-SSH
A developer running Docker on a remote machine via plain SSH from WSL2 finds that bind-mount file changes do not sync between host and container in either direction, even though the same setup works automatically through VS Code's Remote-SSH extension. This points to a gap in generic SSH+Docker tooling for live file synchronization outside of an IDE-specific extension.
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