GH-300 Questions and Answers

Translates code into a more performant language.

Enhances the performance of the selected code by analyzing its runtime complexity.

Automatically formats the code according to the selected style guide.

Summarizes your documentation into more maintainable and readable formats.

GitHub Copilot Individual

GitHub Copilot Business

GitHub Copilot Business for non-GHE Customers

GitHub Copilot Enterprise

GitHub Copilot Teams

Running code suggestions through filters designed to detect public code

Comparing suggestions against public code using machine learning.

Analyzing the context and structure of the code being written

Reviewing the user's browsing history to identify public repositories

Telling GitHub Copilot about the mechanism you want it to use and how to incorporate that into the response

Telling GitHub Copilot from which sources it should base the response on

Telling GitHub Copilot to try multiple times to answer the prompt

Telling GitHub Copilot to iterate several times on the answer before returning it to you

The Settings menu in the GitHub Mobile app.

The feedback section on the GitHub website.

Use the emojis in the Copilot Chat interface.

By tweeting at GitHub's official X (previously known as Twitter) account.

Suggestions matching public code to 'blocked'

Enforce blocking of MIT or GPL licensed code

You need to check code suggestions yourself before accepting

Enable GitHub Copilot license checking

When the user prompts with @workspace.

When the repository-level settings allow overrides by the user.

If the contents of an excluded file are referenced in code that is not excluded, for example function calls.

If the content exclusion was configured at the enterprise level, and is overwritten at the organization level.

Accepted chat suggestions

Code suggestions made by GitHub Copilot

Changes to content exclusion settings

Suggestions blocked by duplication detection filtering

Information from the IDE like open tabs, cursor location, selected code.

All the code in the current repository and any git submodules.

The open tabs in the IDE and the current folder of the terminal.

All the code visible in the current IDE.

A project plan for the team needs to be generated using a project management software.

Create a documentation file for the newly created code base.

A developer is added to a new project and would like to understand the current software code.

Fast tracking of release management activities to move code to production main branch.

GitHub Copilot can independently manage and resolve all merge conflicts in version control.

GitHub Copilot might not fully understand the context and dependencies within a large codebase.

GitHub Copilot's suggestions are always aware of the entire codebase.

GitHub Copilot can refactor and optimize the entire codebase up to 10,000 lines of code.

If GitHub Copilot can connect to the server selected in your user settings.

If the user is part of the content exclusion team that limits the use of content exclusions.

If the content exclusion settings changed in the last 30 minutes or before that.

If the user is in an organization that has content exclusions configured.

Real-time debugging and error resolution statistics.

Insights on the types of coding languages where GitHub Copilot is most helpful.

Automated generation of complete project documentation.

Detailed analysis of GitHub Copilot's suggestions vs. manual coding.

Using well-known coding practices in your repository.

Ensuring that the correct context is available to GitHub Copilot.

Close all the tabs in your IDE that do not have tests in them.

Having a high test coverage percentage in the codebase.

Prompts and Suggestions: Not retained

Prompts and Suggestions: Retained for 28 days

User Engagement Data: Kept for Two Years

User Engagement Data: Kept for One Year

Inclusiveness

Fairness

Reliability and Safety

Privacy and Security

GitHub Copilot Chat can provide guidance and support for common coding tasks and challenges in the targeted programming language.

GitHub Copilot's /understand command will help GitHub Copilot to understand code written in a targeted programming language.

GitHub Copilot can provide contextualized code suggestions and answer sources from an organization's documentation.

GitHub Copilot can convert comments into code to grasp the syntax and nuances of a new programming language.

Restricts Copilot to use only external databases for generating code suggestions.

Allows Copilot to generate suggestions based only on the prefix of the code.

Ignores both the prefix and suffix of the code, focusing only on user comments for context.

Improves suggestions by considering both the prefix and suffix of the code, filling in the middle part more accurately.

Enterprise settings → Copilot → Policies

Repository settings → Copilot → Policies

Organization settings → Copilot → Policies

User settings → Copilot → Policies

GitHub Copilot automatically updates deprecated features in its suggestions to the latest version.

GitHub Copilot may suggest deprecated syntax or features if they are present in its training data.

GitHub Copilot always filters out deprecated elements to promote the use of current standards.

GitHub Copilot rejects all prompts involving deprecated features to avoid compilation errors.

The GitHub Copilot icon in the status bar of the editor will display a message

The GitHub Copilot logs on GitHub.com under your user settings

The code suggestions window will display a warning message

The GitHub Copilot errors panel in your IDE

The excluded content is not directly available to GitHub Copilot to use as context.

GitHub Copilot suggestions are no longer available in the excluded files.

The excluded content is no longer used while debugging the code.

The IDE will not count coding suggestions in the excluded content.

By running code linters and formatters.

By providing visual diagrams of the code structure.

By answering questions about the code and generating explanations.

By automatically refactoring code to improve readability.

It automatically merges pull requests after an automated review.

It generates a prose summary and a bulleted list of key changes for pull requests.

It can validate the accuracy of the changes in the pull request.

It can answer questions about the changeset of the pull request.

Only giving GitHub Copilot a question as a prompt and no examples

Giving GitHub Copilot examples of the problem you want to solve

Telling GitHub Copilot it needs to show only the correct answer

Giving GitHub Copilot examples of the algorithm and outcome you want to use

Giving as little context to GitHub Copilot as possible

Suggest innovative coding solutions that are not yet popular.

Suggest completely novel projects, while reducing time on a project.

Suggest code snippets that reflect the most common practices in the training data.

Suggest homogeneous solutions if provided a diverse data set.

By automatically generating detailed requirements documents.

By providing templates and code snippets that help in documenting requirements.

By identifying and fixing potential requirement conflicts when using /help.

By managing stakeholder communication and meetings.

"Show me how to improve the readability of this function."

"Suggest ways to enhance the maintainability of this code segment."

"Refactor my application to meet the latest coding standards."

"Predict future coding trends and update my codebase accordingly."

You are working in files included in your .gitignore

You do not have an active internet connection

Your programming language is not supported

Your content exclusion is active and blocks the use of GitHub Copilot

You do not have a valid GitHub Copilot license

A complete replacement for developers generating code.

A productivity tool that provides suggestions, but relying on human judgment.

A solution for software development, requiring no additional input or oversight.

A tool solely designed for debugging and error correction.

By asking for multiple suggestions using comments in your code

By opening the completions panel in your editor

By using the inline chat functionality with the command 'multiple'

By using @workspace in the chat window