Copilot Chat Context (source code input)

[StoyanStAtanasov]

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How to control and know which files, selections, editor tabs, etc. are used as inputs to the chat (added to the context)?

This is a very important knowledge to work better with the chat, yet it is missing from all official sources!

Anybody from the team, please help!

[JiveyGuy]

This would be so interesting to see, I tried doing some prompt injection with my copilot and it behaved really strangely; as if other files and previous changes were part of the prompt and being intermixed. I often feel like in multi-file projects copilot struggles and other times it acts as if it has memorized previous files.

Understanding how to gear our file structures and workflows to optimize copilot would be very helpful. Hope that someone can answer.

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