GH-300 Questions and Answers

Add teams to the Copilot subscription for an organization

Upgrade or downgrade the subscription tier

Migrate Copilot seat assignments between GitHub organizations

Reassign Copilot seats based on GitHub repository size

Remove teams from the Copilot subscription for an organization

By adding comments to your code and triggering a suggestion.

By highlighting the code you want to fix, right-clicking, and selecting "Fix using GitHub Copilot."

By running the gh copilot fix command.

By using the "/fix" command in GitHub Copilot in-line chat.

By highlighting the code you want to fix, right-clicking, and selecting "Refactor using GitHub Copilot."

Accepted chat suggestions

Code suggestions made by GitHub Copilot

Changes to content exclusion settings

Suggestions blocked by duplication detection filtering

GitHub Copilot Business for non-GHE customers

GitHub Copilot Individual

GitHub Copilot Enterprise

GitHub Copilot Teams

Suggest homogeneous solutions if provided a diverse data set.

Suggest innovative coding solutions that are not yet popular.

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

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

Navigate to the Security tab in the organization's GitHub settings

Navigate to the Insights tab in the repository settings

Use the Audit log section in the organization's GitHub settings

Use the Code tab in the GitHub repository

Self hosted

Amazon Web Service

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform

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

When the repository level settings allow overrides by the user.

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

When the user prompts with @workspace.

It primarily relies on the model's training data to generate responses.

It primarily uses search results from Bing to generate responses.

It combines its training data set, code in user repositories, and external sources like Bing to generate responses.

It uses user-provided documentation exclusively to generate responses.

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

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.

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

By opening the relevant tabs in your IDE

By adding relevant code snippets to your prompt

By adding the important files to your .gitconfig

By adding the full file paths to your prompt of important files

It decreases software vulnerabilities from third party dependencies.

It reduces overhead by automating testing workflows.

It increases productivity by automating repetitive coding tasks.

It replaces the need for developers in the software development process.