Copilot in GitHub.com Feedback

[eshwer]

Copilot in GitHub is now Generally Available 🎉

We are happy to announce the GA of GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub. Your insights during this public preview were instrumental in improving many features. If you have feedback about the GA features, please share them in this dedicated community discussion.

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Copilot in GitHub.com is now available to Copilot Individual and Business users. And for those with access a preview of OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini is coming soon to GitHub.com too.

How to access Copilot in GitHub.com

If you're part of an organization with Copilot Enterprise, you're already familiar with these features. For those on Copilot Individual or Copilot Business plans, see below on how to get access to Copilot in GitHub.com.

• For Copilot Individual users: If you have a license for Copilot Individual, you're all set! Visit github.com and you'll see the Copilot icon or go directly to github.com/copilot.
• For Copilot Business users: If you have a Copilot Business license through an organization, you'll need to ask your organization administrator to enable Copilot in GitHub.com. Learn how to do this.

[adamcstephens]

I have an individual license, but I can't seem to disable this feature. How can I remove Copilot buttons and search integrations? I disabled the preview feature, but no difference.

[meneguzzi]

Bump this one. I want no copilot whatsoever in any of my repositories. But it seems, regardless of my choice, people can now ask copilot to "explain" code in my repo. In my experience, ChatBots are actually counterproductive for anything other that stuff you'd find by googling anyway. Moreover, I have a blanket robots.txt that is meant to deny access to my code to all chatbots, but obviously GitHub is ignoring this.

[andreszs]

@meneguzzi Agreed. Instead of adding dubious AI that nobody asked for they could instead add the missing CHANGE LOG tab to the repositories, which would be easy and very helpful to get rid of change logs from READMEs once and for all.

[herman16]

please help me i just want to ask if github can develop my program made in visual basic 6.0 on the website. Thank you very much for answering my question. ang how much to develop my program?

[pophydog530]

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/139872?sort=new#discussioncomment-11873380

[l4u532]

It is unclear to me if this will solely be enabled for the org members whom we have enabled CoPilot for, and whether there are any other pricing implications for enabling this. Kindly elaborate :)

[andreszs]

The fact that it's a Microsoft product you are required a license to use it is more than enough to avoid it like the plague.

[nathanheffley]

Could the Single sign-on to see results in the [ORG] organization note be dismissible? Or an option somewhere to hide it? I'm not SSO'd on any of my personal devices which is where I mostly use Copilot.

[zwalden]

Everytime I try to have the copilot chat actually do something (e.g, make a PR), it bombs out.

It keeps asking me to click on "Index Repository", which there is no such button, so I tell the bot that. The bot says, no worries, I can index for you, and that i'm indexed. Only to tell me that i'm not indexed and I need to click on index repositroy on subsequent interaction.
When opening a new prompt (after deleting all existing prompts I had been toying with) -- I now see the green button to "index"

[zwalden]

I asked it to do a couple of things; but primarily create PRs, is when I seen that specific error!

[eshwer]

Ah yes, Copilot in GitHub.com cannot do any "tasks" for you today. It primarily has awareness of the pages you are on and can answer questions about them.

But, if that is something you are interested in it being able to do, I will track it as feedback!

[zwalden]

Ahh.. I totally misunderstood this feature (probably getting ahead of myself more than the marketing, I'd wager) -- so this is strictly for communicating with llm regarding the repository? I seen folks suggesting this could help make bug PRs and stuff, so clearly I missed the memo here !

So this isn't much different then working with copilot chat in the IDE?

[eshwer]

Correct

[C1ph3rPhr3ak]

Every time I try to ask Copilot a question, it tells me that the answer goes against community standards. So.... It is unable to answer any question I have about my coding?

[itbeard]

Hey folks,
Is it possible to obtain a license as an open-source contributor? I canceled my paid Copilot subscription one month ago (I did not use Copilot last month because I switched to Cursor IDE), but now I want to try this new feature.

[Hamzaqtr-313]

No but I am trying

[martinwoodward]

FYI - https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-in-vscode-free/

[gpertea]

I thought I can ask specific function questions about a code base using Copilot. But even though it apparently indexed the repository I was exploring, it started blatantly hallucinating non-existent functions and functionality (unacceptable!), while then also complaining that I should do something that not only seemed contradictory to the indexing message below, but the directions did not make much sense - how to confirm the prompt in copilot chat, I was there, I just did it.. So, was it indexed or not?

[eshwer]

@gpertea if you ask the same question to the smaller assistive chat (accessed by screenshotted button) -- is the response quality similar?

[eshwer]

Also it looks like the referenced repo is indexed!

[gustavomassa]

Copilot is having issues listing/reading files inside an organization. I'm a member of that organization and I have full access and a Copilot Individual license.

What I'm trying to do:

• Search for repositories inside that organization that have a "-xyz" suffix
• Based on the results, find all repositories missing the file "example.yaml"

Some of the errors returned by Copilot:
I was unable to retrieve the file list due to a limitation in the functions available to me
I don't have the capability to directly list the files inside a repository

[eshwer]

These two specific use cases are not well supported today. The opposite of both are though! For example:

• you should be able to search for repos starting with "abc-"
• you should be able to search for files within repos

[eshwer]

I did put this on our backlog to research and add support for, so thank you for reporting!

[ghost]

I cannot delete indexed project indexing

[eshwer]

Is this on the smaller assisted chat on the right of the page or in github.com/copilot?

[ghost]

Yes

[Predidit]

I can't find the button to delete index. I telled copilot to delete index, and copilot said he met an error when progressing delete.

[akiselev]

The instructions for semantic indexing are unclear:

What does that mean? What prompt do I need to confirm to get my codebase indexed?

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On a public repo (KDAB/cxx-qt) I get the following error when asking "What does this repository do?":

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When asking "Can you tell me about this repository?" (in a private repo), it depends way too much on the README. For example, if you don't delete or update the readme from some skeleton/template you used to initialize the repo, Copilot Chat will use that as the basis for the answer, even if the repo has completely diverged from the readme.

[eshwer]

What does that mean? What prompt do I need to confirm to get my codebase indexed?
-The prompt here is in reference to the Green "Index this Repo" button you may see in the the chat box. You can see a screenshot in our docs here.
On a public repo (KDAB/cxx-qt) I get the following error when asking "What does this repository do?":

• Looks like you uncovered a bug! Thank you! Our team is working to resolve this but if you try again, it should behave now! If not, let me know.

Re: you last point of feedback about the README - that's super helpful feedback! I share it back with the team. We tend to be a bit non-deterministic with this question so I've seen a bit of variety when that question is called.

[ArtemGoutsoul]

It would be nice if the conversation list was synchronized across sessions, both browser and mobile and eventually hopefully extensions like the PhpStorm Copilot plugin.

[eshwer]

Yeah that's a great point! I'll share this feedback back to the team!

[TheCedarPrince]

I don't want to be too much a nuisance but would it be possible to disable or hide Copilot completely from my interface? Thanks!

[sethmlarson]

The addition of Copilot where the notifications button previously was is not a welcome change. This might seem like a nitpick, but you're throwing away years of muscle memory just to push this brand new product. There are already 3 mentions of Copilot in the UI when I open github.com, could 2 or god-forbid, 1 of those locations suffice?

[Mogost]

This! In fact, this comment is one of the most valuable!

[eshwer]

We have moved it!

[jlleblanc]

I am failing to understand what this product offers beyond what you can already do with Copilot chat in VS Code. Even after indexing one of my repositories, I am getting function errors on at least every other response I get back.

When I finally got back a response for one of the tasks I had it do (generate a sitemap.xml file), I asked it to create a pull request. This was met with “sorry, can’t create branches or pull requests.”

🤷

[eshwer]

Makes sense and definitely aligned to a future we envision!

[tedsecretsource]

Isn't it true that this version of copilot is more of a RAG solution while Copilot in VS Code simply uses the currently active document for context?

[eshwer]

Sort of, that used to be the case but we've actually shipped @github to VS Code which supports the same functionality as chat in github.com. Check out the changelog here.

[tedsecretsource]

OMG that's crazy awesome. Do I need to index the repo in order to be able to use @github? If not, what is the benefit of indexing?

[eshwer]

I don't believe you need to index the repo to use @github -- indexing is specifically helpful for semantic code search like when you aren't sure the exact name of a function or symbol (see docs)

[hugovk]

Please remove (or add an option to remove) the floating button at the bottom right of every page:

It's sometimes in the way of other buttons, like the comment button right now, especially on mobile.

[eshwer]

If you open the panel and then select the ellispsis, a dropdown appears and you can hide the button.

[trusktr]

Please allow owners of repositories to instruct GitHub Copilot to remember certain information. For example, when I'm asking Copilot to show me an example of how to use something, and it is incorrect, I should be able to (as owner of the repo) tell Copilot how to do it correctly, and instruct Copilot to remember this information for anyone else who may visit the repo.

This will be really useful in making Copilot useful for users of libraries because the sources of truth for information is stated by owners of the repos.

Basically this would allow a repo owner to "teach" a single person who can then teach all other users. This would be incredibly powerful.

From this, GitHub Copilot could even help generate documentation by organizing ideas from conversations into meaningful output, including generating new outputs that it can infer from sources of truth.

And best of all, the people that could be tasked with using GitHub Copilot to generate docs could be other people besides the owner, who can make pull requests that are accurate based on derivatives of owners' truths.

[arfon]

@okineadev – I was coming to say the same thing:

Have you looked at Custom Instructions in VS Code? We're looking to bring something similar to Copilot in GitHub.com too and I'd love to hear if you're able to customize your Copilot experience well using these instructions in the editor.

/ cc @khenckel @elliebennett

[khenckel]

@trusktr can you give an example of the type of correction you have in mind?

[tallior]

Such instructions don't seem to work on GitHub.com....
I reported it in another discussion

[elliebennett]

@tallior thanks for the question! I just responded to the discussion you created cc @khenckel

[tallior]

@elliebennett yeh i replied to your comment. i am not 100% but it doesn't seem to work, not sure if i'm doing something wrong

[dansheerhealth]

It would be great to also index attached Wikis for any indexed repository. As of right now copilot is only able to point you to the wiki, not answer anything using it as a reference.

[arfon]

👍 yes, this would be useful I agree. / cc @khenckel

[lonasozo]

It would be great if it can index all files into a repo (that as it says, it do that) and help you with it, actually it just works fine on files that you directly open or that are available into a commit/pr, not on all project.

As it reply when I ask if it can access to all repo:
I don't have direct access to perform a complete indexing of the files in a repository. I can help you search for specific references or files if you provide more details.

[Nana-Kwame-bot]

It'll be nice If I can get copilot to generate the PR description using this format.

Description

Type of Change

• ✨ New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• 🛠️ Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• ❌ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• 🧹 Code refactor
• ✅ Build configuration change
• 📝 Documentation
• 🗑️ Chore

[dsolteszopyn]

I asked copilot to create release notes summarizing the enhancements from all the commits since monday 12/2/2024 but its only able to retrieve 3 commits. This needs to be enhanced so we can ask questions about our repos, branches etc. How many commits did we have this week? Give develop counts for commits since the last release branch was created? The only thing useful at this point is just getting pr summary descriptions.

[uset82]

I believe we need more assistance with settings. It would be great if Copilot could navigate to our settings and handle the setup automatically to help us work faster. For example, I was trying to connect Devin to my Visual Studio, but it kept crashing. Copilot suggested creating a personal access token (classic) on GitHub and using it in Visual Studio Code for authentication. That was very clever, especially since even Devin's customer service couldn't help. However, there are still too many steps required to connect everything. Simplifying this process would be a huge improvement.

[pleabargain]

Looking for Product Feedback

copilot doesn't see my repo

ollama5test repo exists (look left)
copilot doesn't see it :(

[arfon]

Did you try this without the 'https://github.com'

[clicktodev]

I have an issue with auto focus on the AI Ask a question input box causes zoom-in on ios

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/146606

[changshunxu520]

I just want to ask when you will officially support answering in a specified language. It keeps switching to English for no reason. What's the point of this broken chat feature? Not all users are fluent in English. A paid plugin like this, with no feedback channel, and you never respond to questions in the discussion forum. I'm really frustrated and feel like cursing.

[khenckel]

@changshunxu520 do custom instructions work for you? They're only available at the repository level right now, but we're exploring a personal solution. Let me know what you prefer

[changshunxu520]

I noticed that IDEA's GitHub Copilot offers a language setting, but why doesn't this setting work? Could it be that your testers didn't properly test it?

[byteZorvin]

There is just no features being built on the neovim extension of copilot and is stagnant from a long time. There is no chat feature, no error checking and diff applying. Really need work there

[fossdd]

How do I disable Copilot? Please just let me disable it, stop grabbing my data! Your guide does not work for me, there is no cancel button anywhere. I can't open a new ticket since it just redirects me to the same docs that do not work, and of course your fucking AI assistant. I'm refusing to give you my data for free.

[kadirovazizbek]

As far as I know, in Copilot free we have 2000 completions free per month. Where can I check usage statistics, about how many completions I got during the month?

[UltraGenBR]

Hello,

I received the following message about GitHub Spark via email, but I am unable to access it:

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GitHub

What if you could build a web app just as easily as writing a to-do list?

With GitHub Spark, recently unveiled at GitHub Universe 2024, now you can. Designed to turn plain English commands into fully functional web applications, GitHub Spark is our latest leap toward making development easier and more intuitive for everyone. Whether you're a developer looking to streamline your workflow, or a beginner eager to dive into web creation, GitHub Spark is here to ignite your ideas.

Curious how it works? This edition of The GitHub Insider will give you a tour, enabling you to jump in and build new applications today.

Let’s go!

Step #1: Describe your application and generate 🐵

On the GitHub Spark homepage, describe what you want to create. Let’s say you want to create an app that tracks the cities you’ve visited. You could type:

“Create an app for me to log all the cities I’ve traveled with a review and star rating system and plot those ratings onto a map.”

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Could you help me access this message or provide more information?

Thank you!

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[Zhou-Shilin]

Immersive GitHub Copilot is not loading with Safari 16.2 on my iPad, but working fine with Google Chrome on my PC.

[pophydog530]

沉浸式 GitHub Copilot 無法在我的 iPad 上使用 Safari 16.2 加載，但在我的 PC 上使用 Google Chrome 運行良好。

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/139872?sort=new#discussioncomment-11873380

[LaTishaKrystofAllscripts]

View Mermaid Diagrams

As a development architect, I often use Copilot (web) to create Markdown files with Mermaid diagrams to document current feature implementation after adding all of the source code as context. A major improvement would be to natively view rendered Mermaid diagrams directly in Copilot, alongside the Markdown source.

Currently, I have to check in the Markdown or copy it into another tool like VS Code just to see the diagram visually. Native Mermaid support in the web UI would greatly improve productivity and make architecture and feature documentation workflows much smoother.