Problem with development on Windows with Docker and mounted volume

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Funny @pixeltrix came across this yesterday and used this hack to work around it:

https://github.com/alphagov/e-petitions/commit/98f288501f5b9c8b6347c1c6009da7218ec7bea2

I recommend just installing WSL2 and using our WSL2 setup which is far faster and easier to reason about:

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