Add an option to show the version of the CLI about cli HOT 3 CLOSED

It appears you have the older 'vscode devcontainer CLI' installed on your machine. Despite the name it is not the same as the source code in this repo.

I suggest removing that command and installing the CLI from this repository. You can do so with npm:

npm install -g @devcontainers/cli

We're aware that two tools with the same name is confusing. I imagine the goal is to either remove the "vscode devcontainer CLI" completely, or forward commands to a vscode-specific build of the OSS CLI (this repo).

@bamurtaugh @chrmarti @Chuxel - We should do something about this to avoid future confusion :)

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Thanks for the tag @joshspicer and for opening this issue @tschaffter!

@alexdima and @chrmarti have been working on forwarding from the previous devcontainer CLI to the new OSS devcontainer CLI.

The built-in CLI devcontainer (or devcontainer-insiders for VS Code Insiders) of the Remote-Containers extension now forwards to the built-in open source CLI. The open command and the previous CLI arguments for the build command are also supported.

@chrmarti @alexdima is there another scenario we'll still need to cover where users may install / use the older CLI in another way (not from Remote-Containers)?

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There is a --version option now, but I need to fix where it looks up the version (currently goes to the extension's package.json, but we want the CLI's package.json to be used).

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