I use Github copilot with my visual studio instance.
While I was developping, I wanted to test a SQL request. I opened a terminal, launched psql and did my tests in it. That was garbage tests with table named like "dfoinacfqx"
Back in vscode, I begin to write my results, then I saw that github copilot autocompleted my line with the full result I had in my psql terminal. I know that copilot has scanned it because it was keeping my tables "dfoinacfqx" in the suggestions...
So my question if the following: is it normal that copilot is not limited to vscode instance, and what is it scanning on the computer? I find it weird that he can scan everything on the computer. Is there a page where the scope of Copilot is clearly defined? I can't find anyone
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I've been using gitpod's OpenVSCode Server recently, which is mostly based on VSCode. I looked at some of VSCode's documentation on Github, but I don't know how this is implemented. It seems that VSCode's official vscode server is not public. May I know how to package VSCode source code as vscode server?
I've tried many ways, but it doesn't work
I have been using copilot for a while now, and one fine day on opening VSCode this error appeared.
"[ERROR] [default] [2022-04-09T08:38:10.995Z] GitHub Copilot could not connect to server. Extension activation failed: "certificate has expired"
I looked up for it everywhere and found nothing, it'd be a great help if someone could fix this for me!
[here's the error and how the extension looks like on the status bar]
Three common causes:
An out of date IDE. Solution: make sure your IDE is up to date
If you're not properly signed in to GitHub CoPilot. Solution: make sure you're signed in to GitHub CoPilot
E.g. In VSCode look on the bottom left, if you see this, you might not be signed in:
Click the icon, and follow the prompts to sign in, then CoPilot should work.
Try closing and reopening your IDE (e.g. vscode), that may also help.
I know its a bit late. But I encountered this problem today. If disabling and restarting doesn't help, you could try:
At uninstall, select Install another version, and select the version before the latest
Reload vscode
After doing this, my copilot started working again.
Two things you should check:
1=> Update VSCode to the latest version
2=> Update GitHub Copilot latest version
From the Menubar, go to View -> Output;
Choose GitHub Copilot from the pulldown on the left to see the log of what is going on in the background.
Go to your Github account and check if you have paid the bill, In my case that was the problem.
In Visual Studio, if you are the one that disabled the Copilot before you can enable the following way.
Either search for "Copilot".
Or go to Tools>>Options>>GitHub>>Copilot
Go to Enable Globally and change from false to True.
Given that GitHub Copilot is so fresh and well-liked, updates are made often. When encountering this kind of problem, I would advise entirely purging and reinstalling.
Installation of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code
The documentation lists extensions for Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, and the JetBrains suite as IDEs that GitHub Copilot supports.
The installation consists of three main steps:
Create a GitHub account (if you don’t have one already).
Go to GitHub Copilot and click on “Start my free trial”. Follow the sign-up steps and make sure to cancel before your 60-day free trial is up (if you don’t want to continue using the tool).
Install the VSCode extension by searching for “GitHub Copilot” on the extensions tab. You’ll be asked to sign in to GitHub, authorize the extension, and then Copilot will be set up.
If you would like a more thorough explanation, my colleague Rafael wrote a great article based on his time with Copilot and VSCode: https://www.scalablepath.com/full-stack/ai-pair-programming-github-copilot-review
I have installed GitHub Copilot just for the sake of testing. However, none of the commands work.
For example if I try CTRL + Enter I get this error message:
command 'github.copilot.generate' not found
I am trying it with JS file.
I have latest Visual Studio Code and Copilot installed.
Click on the bell button on bottom right-corner of the Visual Studio Code Editor
Press 'Agree' button
Thats it!
I had already signed up for the Technical preview and also accepted the invite for the same. Even after being signed in to VS Code using the same account, I had this error. This solution worked for me:
Sign out of my account from the Accounts section of the left
sidebar on VS Code
Sign in again using the same account in which invite was received
NOTE: There is a thread on the official Copilot discussion board on this issue here.
I have access to Github Copilot as well but get the error:
command 'github.copilot.generate' not found
Tried reloading and reinstalling it as well through vscodes ui.
Went in and manually went through the process of completely deleting it explained here.
Afterward, I logged out of my Github account attempted to install Copilot then logged back in when the prompt was displayed, again no luck.
Tested running both CTRL+ENTER and Alt+\ , neither of them did anything.
After I tried:
Developer: Reload Window
But that didn't do anything.
Checked the discussion forums and they had a solution for:
command 'github.copilot.toggleCopilot' not found
Which was to simply uninstall then reinstall copilot then run CTRL+R (Developer: Reload Window), this too didn't work out.
There's a good chance that all you'd have to do is retrigger the authentication flow considering that the developer tools console reports that copilot is "missing an auth token" (but no one knows how to retrigger it).
In addition to the above, I tried running CTRL+SHIFT+P then ran "Open Copilot", which resulted in the error
Command 'Open Copilot' resulted in an error (command 'github.copilot.generate' not found)
From this discussion post on another forum with a similar issue, apparently, this is an issue with command registration.
This specific comment seemed most relevant
Uninstall Python extension (if you have pylance uninstall it first).
Close all instances of VS Code.
Go to,%USERPROFILE%/.vscode/extensions (on windows) or
~/.vscode/extensions on Linux/Mac.
Delete any folder with the name starting with ms-python.python*
Start VS Code, and install Python extension (also pylance if you
uninstalled it in step 1).
Of course, you'd have to apply this to Copilot so...
Uninstall Copilot
Close all instances of vscode
Go to, %USERPROFILE%/.vscode/extensions (on windows) or ~/.vscode/extensions on Linux/Mac.
Delete all instances of Copilot
Go to, %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Roaming/Code/CachedExtensionVSIXs
Delete all instances of Copilot
Start and install Copilot
This too didn't work.
If I were to guess this would be solvable via retriggering the authentication flow.
(1) Go to, %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Roaming/Code/CachedExtensionVSIXs
(2) Delete all files and reopen vsCode.
This happens when you have failed to authenticate Copilot with Visual Studio Code.
If you had a missed authentication flow the flow can be re-triggered by clicking the VSCode Notifications icon on the status bar and clicking on the Sign in to Github notification.
If you have lost the authentication flow notification from the notifications panel, re-installing the Copilot helps.
TIP: To make it easier to sign in, make sure you are already authenticated on github.com on the default browser.
You can open the extensions tab or press ctrl + shift + x to look at the copilot extension.
you may reload it if you have authenticated with your GitHub account before.
Step 1:
First you need to login with same Github account you use for copilot beta signup, in your default browser.
If you mistakenly did something wrong here, just uninstall the extension and reload it, and then repeat step 1.
I don't know how this ties in but maybe it will help.
I have several times gotten a page saying that Copilot installed but wasn't done yet, and that I could finish the process by pasting an auth code into the "sign on to Github" link found in the VSCode status bar.
No such sign-on link ever showed up in my status bar but the auth code looked like this:
vscode-insiders://vscode.github-authentication/did-authenticate?windowid=1&code=65....
but I have found no place I can run that where it produces the desired result. At best I end up back at the waitlist sign on page.
Just log out your github account and re-log-in it in VSCode
In OSX this worked:
On a previous try, I had logged in to the wrong GitHub account. Be sure to be logged in with the correct GitHub account in the browser. Delete the extension from VSCode. Then open the Keychain Access -app and delete GitHub keys from there. After that install the extension and now it gets the correct authorization.
I found that the reason was because my account never prompted me to allow the access as one of the top answers shows. It may have something to do with a firewall or other permissions (or bugs) on your machine. If you have access to another computer you can try to use Co-Pilot and see what happens. For me, everything worked on the second computer. Then you could compare and see what is different. In my case, it was my work's VPN that didn't allow. Once I disconnected from the VPN or tried another device, it worked fine.
Check if you behind a firewall or proxy
Have you got the copilot beta? If not, you cant use it!
Updating Github Copilot helped (for NVim + Vundle I did :BundleUpdate).
Today npm started to act up when I executed npm i <github repo> inside a VSCode terminal.
The action was interrupted by a VSCode popup window
"Image: The extension GitHub wants to sign in using GitHub."
I [Cancel]'ed that popup, but npm still hung.
This time two popups occurred in vscode asking me for username and password.Image: VSCode input dialogues for username and password
I [ESC][ESC]'ed out of those, but the same thing happened a second time.
I avoided that too by doing [Cancel][ESC][ESC] again.
Despite my actions to "ignore" the interruption, the GitHub library actually got installed (Hurray).
Retrying the same install in a terminal outside VSCode, did not show the same interruption.
Does anybody know how I can get rid of this annoying interference from VSCode?
It should be noted that there are no GitHub extension showing in the VSCode extension list.
Is there some internal GitHub extention in VSCode?
I already have perfectly good SSH-key credentials for GitHub that works well with npm outside VSCode. I do not see why I should spread my credentials to VSCode as well.
Regards,
Erik
VSCode 1.48.2,
Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
I had this problem too, and only found suggestion of setting
"github.gitAuthentication": false,
This stopped the first popup you describe, but I could still not suppress the second Git username and password dialog. I've found that to stop that, it is also necessary to set:
"git.terminalAuthentication": false,
Note: The integrated terminal will need to be exited/restarted for this to take effect.
When I rename folders in VSCode intellisense gets confused. Is there a way to reset intellisense?
If you run the Reload Window command from the VS Command Palette it will restart the analysis server, which will reanalyse and should fix things up.
However, this seems like a nasty bug. Would you mind running the Dart: Capture Logs command, reproducing the issue and then opening an issue on GitHub with the log (please review it for anything sensitive) and detailed steps so we can investigate?