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Copilot Workspace Feedback #145254
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I am using VisualStudio. |
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> How can I use GitHub Copilot features effectively if I primarily work in Visual Studio?Multi-line Suggestions: Press Ctrl + Enter (Windows) or Cmd + Enter (Mac) Break Down Tasks: Use comments or short code snippets to guide Copilot’s focus. Tips to Use Copilot EffectivelyLeverage Key Shortcuts: Alt + \ or Ctrl + Space: Manually trigger suggestions. Write clear, well-structured code. |
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Its really annoying to use when it just goes back to the github website when you click certain things |
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I too had seen "This site can't be reached" for a while, after 5 minutes it started working. |
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Try these fixes: Check Internet – Ensure stable connection. If still not working, test on another device. 🚀 |
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@ThisIsKirsch When we are going to have a model selection in CW? any ETA? |
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@beingminimal Making CW multi-model is a top priority for us. Stay tuned 👀 |
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ok thanks. |
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Do you think model selection in CW will improve system performance or accuracy? |
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Would love to get Higher Rate Limits |
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+1 replacing Random with RandomNumberGenerator.Create() (in C#, yeah i know) and putting it in its own service and changing 35 files was to much for the rate limit. So Sad. I even would throw my own ressources (azure) against it or setup a local env (ollama + api key) to properly test this. |
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I couldn't finish brainstorming on an issue and faced a rate limit (yesterday and today). I didn't even get to the coding today; that's challenging for me to try this feature again while it's forcing me to wait one hour. |
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Have you contacted the service provider to request an increase in rate limits? |
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Have you tried optimizing your code or resource allocation to avoid hitting the limit? |
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+1. I hit my hourly quota limit twice today and then hit my daily quota limit. Mind you, I was working to have Copilot Workspace help me flesh out a somewhat complex project...but I'm still hoping they raise the quotas soon. |
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I find that reordering files in the plan is difficult when you have a large list of files. I would love to be able to have some form of dedicated function to reorder files in the plan. |
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@wmeints Can you tell us more about why you reorder files and what order you put them in? For example, are you grouping files and their tests, grouping all files together and all tests together, etc? |
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I noticed that sometimes copilot workspace has the order reversed and produces the wrong result. For example, when the test file is generated before the implementation, the implementation generated is a lot worse. Now when I reorder the files, the results are better. In most cases the order of the files is correct, however, when you start to iterate in the session using brainstorming or by typing revisions, new files are added at the end of the list that need to be at the top or somewhere in the middle. By then the list is getting pretty long so it becomes harder to reorder the files. |
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That’s helpful context, thanks @wmeints. We’ll look into this. |
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@ThisIsKirsch Does CW going to support custom Ai agents? like in case if we want to run ai agents we have built with langgraph in CW then is it going to be supported? |
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@ThisIsKirsch CW will have canvas like GPT4o-canvas to iterate? |
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Hi, From my understanding it seems to be intended to start a new "Task" in your workspace when copilot has completed what was initially prompted. Hence, I think it would be nice with some UI that promotes this workflow. See example images below Current UI: My suggestion would be to include a button at the bottom of the side bar, which makes it possible to start new Tasks, straight from the sidebar, when copilot has implemented the initial task prompt: Suggested UI-draft: ***When button is clicked, you get prompted to go to a new task page and start the process again, or something along those lines. *** But I really love it so far! Kudos! |
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@MarzLars would you say you always want to be in control of when to start a new task like depicted? How would you feel if CW automatically started new tasks (as follow-ups to the original with proper UI affordances) if it thinks your request doesnt fit into the current? |
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@six7 I will mostly want to always be in control, but it would be nice if CW comes with a pop-up or notifaction if it notices the request diverges too much--you get the option to put that request into a new task or keep going with your current session. 😛 |
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Any plans to integrate CW with pycharm / jetbrains IDEs? |
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No specific plans as of yet, but additional IDE support is something we are considering. |
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Should be higher priority |
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Is there a way for users to provide feedback to encourage prioritization of integrating CW with specific IDEs like PyCharm or JetBrains? |
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I would appreciate if the Command part, has knowledge of the actual scripts, so you can have it install the necessary dependencies without having to specify them one-by-one. |
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Hey, I was wondering if CW will still be receiving weekly updates while in public preview? |
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We will continue shipping updates to CW as we build towards public preview :) Expect changelogs to land every 2 weeks. |
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Are there any specific features you expect in CW's updates during the public preview? |
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Something we frequently do is to have tasks like "Implement a new thing X that is similar to Y. To figure out what to do, search for usages of Y.". So far it seems like CoPilot workspace cannot understand this. Especially not within a monorepo. Example of where one would do this:
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Have you tried using Brainstorming to extract a description of current system behaviors e.g. "similar to Y"? Brainstorming lets you query the current codebase to understand existing behaviors which can then be injected back into the task description in order to inform the plan. |
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Hi, Really enjoyed using the workspace, had some success cleaning up javadoc on my open source project https://github.com/Hack23/cia . Javadoc improvements Pull request. Works pretty well, result https://hack23.github.io/cia/apidocs/com.hack23.cia.web/module-summary.html better module descriptions was empty before. Some issues I had.
Would be great if could scan the whole project and detect and modify large set of files better. Example want to fix "Desc." descriptions in UI since I was lazy when I wrote ot https://copilot-workspace.githubnext.com/Hack23/cia?shareId=f93d776f-206d-4445-bf64-8fae04951c51 . Would be great to fix it everywhere :) Now limited to one package Hack23/cia#6753 or do it for multiple areas. Like the workflow, easy to learn and great support for generating pull request. Best regards |
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Thanks for sharing @pethers. It's awesome to see your success with CW. Context selection is a critical piece of CW. We're actively working on some new ideas to improve the way CW selects files for your task. We're also working to increase capacity as we scale CW towards a public preview so hopefully you aren't hitting quota limits as frequently going forward. Keep an eye out on our changelog for continued improvements! :) |
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Is there a way for Copilot Workspace to support fixing issues across the entire project instead of being limited to a specific package? |
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Generally a huge fan of the copilot workspace, cant wait to see where it will go. Also can't wait til I'm not rate limited and can use it more extensively! Some feedback I had while creating:
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Love this feedback. Your points about improving ideas are fantastic. I'll raise these points with the team as we shape the next iterations. |
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Glad to hear it! Another note regarding this feedback approach- it's a bit noisy to get emails about everyone else's input. I'll be muting this thread, so ping me directly if you have any additional questions. |
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I've been lookin' around in the project repo and site and I wasn't able to find terms regarding what happens with source code in private/internal repos when granting access to Copilot Workspace: I think it's really relevant for businesses to be sure that their private source code is not shared to train models or provide code snippets/suggestions to the whole Github community |
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I have a bit of feedback / thoughts regarding the UI. For a bit of context, I am a software engineer that haven't used Github that much before, my previous company was using other products for code and project management. So I'm a bit familiar with Github UIs but I am not entirely comfortable yet. I might not be offering solutions/alternatives, this is more an expression of my thoughts / first impressions while using the tool. This is my fourth session, and I have done relatively small tasks so far. I started the session from my repo using the Code -> Copilot -> Start task flow.
In this first Interaction I have some mixed indications of what I need to do next:
At that point, as a new user that has not read the documentation because I am really confident about my ability to understand a UI, I am a bit confused what I'm supposed to do next. This is what I feel the UI is telling me: If I click "Generate plan" it is going to use the input I made in Write to re-generate the Brainstorm. But actually what happens if I change the Task is that a new button/section appears at the top of the Brainstorm content to regenerate it, and I still can hit Generate plan without updating the Brainstorm:
It seems like the intention is for Brainstorms to be updated when the Task changes. There's even this "Outdated" indicator in the "Ideas from brainstorm" thing under the Task textbox once I change the Task. But if I click Generate plan thinking that it would update the Brainstorm it seems to proceed with the original Brainstorm instead. I have to click on Brainstorm or on the Outdated label and then click on that other Update button to update the Brainstorm and then update the Plan. But, also, if I update the Brainstorm there is no indication that the Plan is now Outdated, and that I should click on Update plan rather than on Implement selected files. Now, if click on one of the "Suggested questions", it seems to replace the content from the original Brainstorm. Turns out that the original one still exists under that hamburger button, but there is no indication that that is what is happening. Why not add another tab beside Brainstorm? Or indicate that will open another "page"? But also, what the Chat-like interface is suggesting to me is that this section is more like a chat-gpt experience, where there is a conversation, not an individual document per question/answer. First thing I thought was: It's not clear why aren't the questions I'm asking added to the "Ideas from brainstorming section" which contains the original, automatically added, "How do I solve this task?" (By the way, maybe it should say we, it is copilot and the user brainstorming together right?) Once I used the questions I saw the answers give you options, like "Where should the avatar be displayed", it gave me a few options, which I can then "+ Add to task" if I agree. Which then adds something to the list of ideas from brainstorming, but also changes the original "How do I solve this task?" page/answer right?. In particular in the Proposed solution section. Why both places?
There also seem to be questions, like the above one, that is not really giving me the option to specifically select which one I want to add to task, it seems to be an all or nothing rather than options like in others. These seem to be 3 ways to attend to the issue expressed by the question that do not need to be all done. And in this case I can't edit instantly, I have to click on the pencil button to enter edit mode, which is not the case with the original "How do I solve this task?" page. This whole concept of Suggested questions seem to dance between 2 different purposes, there are some that seem to be questions that may help us further refine the request, like the one about where to display the avatar. But then there are others that seem to be more about the user wanting to learn about something, for example I have a suggestion about Learning about PySide6 for UI development. Should there be a distinction about Questions for refining where we will be given a selection to further refine the task, versus those that are about other related topics? I have more thoughts but my son just came back from school! Hope you find these reflections (sort of ramble) useful! |
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I've been using Google Workspace extensively in conjunction with a set of utility command-line tools I developed. These tools perform tasks like code review, refactoring, generating unit tests, and converting code in my repository. This has been especially useful in a Vue.js application, particularly for transitioning from Vue 2 to Vue 3 and converting components to the Composition API. Here are two ideas that could be ported to Workspace:
Example Example of |
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it's already supported at a basic level. check here. |
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I've been complaining about this not existing for months. How did you learn about it / what's the correct way of learning about this sort of stuff? |
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just an idea, would be great to add agents to copilot workspace, like
this could even implment an XP agile mini feedback team, where a red test could be the start , then tryin to reproduce i with unit tests and then fixing it, then eventually asking if unit tests are to keep for regression or can be removed for this specific fix |
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I've been using workspace for months, and complained about the inability to set custom instructions multiple times in this feedback section, and today I learn that this is in fact already implemented, and has been around all along: https://github.com/githubnext/copilot-workspace-user-manual/blob/main/changes.md#-23-august-2024 I really wish I had known about this before, and I did google it and found nothing, I feel like there is some kind of documentation/communication failure here. |
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Wait .... so does copilot-workspace use the custom-instructions.md file or some other file from the repo? I had actually asked for this above https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/145254#discussioncomment-11856234 |
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Hi @arthurwolf, fair point. I’ll look into how we can make that more discoverable. @akulmehta — Copilot will use anything from the repository’s |
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Paid copilot user here, nevertheless I get |
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Ditto. Some people in my org have access; others don't. I can click some links and it will open in "read mode"; but everything else is access denied. We all have active copilot licenses. I also opened a support ticket a week or two ago; support responded:
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Recent system speed has been not just unpleasant but unusable. Hard to assess the system properly since it takes more time waiting for the AI to respond than it does to do the task manually. |
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I agree with this, while it was in the closed preview it was fast like a 🚀 . But since it's been open to everybody with a CoPilot subscription, it's been slow like a 🐢 |
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It would be great if it could review failed GitHub Actions jobs and update the code based on the errors provided in those failed jobs. Also, I noticed that it does not provide the correct link for the workplace in the commit message: |
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Hi @kolibriof, regarding the broken share link, I can’t reproduce that bug. Can you let us know if you continue to experience it? |
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Guys this is a great tool. Thank you for putting this out into the world. |
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I tried this on a repo here: https://github.com/dotnet/android FormattingI found that when performing a large change across a repo:
Copilot Workspace as-is seems more suited for projects that use the default code formatting for a given language. C#-specific Nullable Reference TypesI gave it a task like:
It fixed them in a poor way, for example: #nullable disable
class Foo {
Bar bar;
public Foo(Bar bar) => this.bar = bar;
public void Print() => bar.ToString();
}It did this: class Foo {
Bar? bar;
public Foo(Bar? bar) => this.bar = bar;
public void Print() => bar!.ToString();
}
It should do something like this instead: class Foo {
Bar bar;
public Foo(Bar bar)
{
ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull (bar); // NOTE this line is optional, as Bar is non-nullable
this.bar = bar;
}
public void Print() => bar.ToString();
}Calling |
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As of right now, I cant even load copilot workspace pages. At all. They hang when trying to load the main page, or any of the bookmarks I had for open tasks. |
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Hi @benny-yamagata, unfortunately we had an incident that caused a bit of downtime. Please let us know if you continue to see any issues. |
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Push directly to main |
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Hi @TWDevLead, thanks for flagging this. I think I’ve been able to reproduce this bug consistently. Can I confirm the behaviour you experience is that attempting to commit directly to main instead creates a new branch and opens a pull request for your changes? |
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Exactly. Thank you. |
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Asked copilot to provide feedback for a PR. I was expecting it to make a comment on the pr itself, but instead it just mangled the comments in my code. |
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Looking for Product Feedback
The wait is over! 🎉 We’re thrilled to share that the technical preview of GitHub Copilot Workspace is now available to all paying Copilot customers. 🚀
We've loved all the feedback given to use during the technical preview and pubic preview, and we're thrilled to be getting such amazing feedback from you. Previously we were collecting feedback on Discord. Moving forward we'll be using this discussions post as the one-stop shop for all user feedback!
If you have any feedback, bugs to report, or comments in general regarding Copilot Workspace please leave it here!
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