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Hi, new guy here. I am currently looking at a good-first-issue issue that is related to the cmd. I have implemented the change, I would like to test my change functionally locally before creating a PR, however, I am getting a lot of errors for attempting to build it using the command `make dist`.

Normally what would be the best approach to test functionality changes? Would it be local or directly on the CI/CD pipeline? WOuld love to know the best approach here.

It would be good to get your local setup working. The CI pipeline can only be run by Pulumi employees. We’re happy to do that for you once you have a PR, but to get it ready it’s better to test locally.

What error are you seeing?

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I am trying to debug the pulumi cli using VSCode’s debugger for the issue of #13542. The launch.json is as following and I have placed breakpoints at /pkg/cmd/pulumi/main.go and /pkg/cmd/pulumi/about.go. However, the breakpoint is not showing. What could be the right wya to debug the pulumi cli


`{`
    `"version": "0.2.0",`
    `"configurations": [`
        `{`
            `"name": "Launch Package",`
            `"type": "go",`
            `"request": "launch",`
            `"mode": "debug",`
            `"program": "/Users/tzehaotay/Desktop/TzeHao/pulumi/pkg/cmd/pulumi/main.go",//"${fileDirname}",`
            `"args": ["about"]`
            `"cwd": "/Users/tzehaotay/Desktop/TzeHao/entrypoint-test/pulumi"`
        `}`
    `]`
`}`

I can’t see anything obviously wrong in there - here’s what I use that works:
```{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Debug pulumi",
            "type": "go",
            "request": "launch",
            "mode": "auto",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/pkg/cmd/pulumi",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/../test-program",
            "args": [
                "about"
            ]
        }
    ]
}```

Seems like it doesn’t work when the launch.json is not in the pulumi workspace. I tried running the launch.json in the entrypoint-test folder and pulumi folder. It only worked in the latter even though the launch.json are the same (given that the path are adjusted accordingly)