Introduction
GitHub Copilot is an advanced AI-powered coding assistant that can dramatically enhance developer efficiency across every stage of your development workflow. GitHub Copilot saves time for developers, enabling them to concentrate on higher-level problem-solving and innovation by automating routine tasks, providing relevant code completion, and generating entire blocks of code that accelerate development cycles from initial coding to pull request completion.
GitHub Copilot offers flexible interaction options tailored to your workflow, meeting you wherever you work in your development environment. Whether through code completion in your IDE, conversational chat for complex problem-solving, collaborative features on GitHub.com, or command-line assistance, Copilot seamlessly integrates across environments to enhance your development experience and productivity. Understanding these interaction modes is key to unlocking the full potential of GitHub Copilot and optimizing your coding workflow to rapidly deliver quality code changes.
This module covers the different methods for interacting with GitHub Copilot, guiding you on when, where, and how to use these methods to effectively communicate your goals to Copilot and provide it with the necessary information to complete your tasks.
In this module you'll learn about:
- How to utilize GitHub Copilot's auto-suggestions, multiple suggestions pane, and its ability to adapt to different coding styles to accelerate development workflows.
- How to provide context to GitHub Copilot through inline comments, block comments, docstrings, and other types of comments to enhance code generation accuracy and speed.
- Interacting with GitHub Copilot through natural language conversations to generate complex code, debug issues, obtain code explanations, and streamline development tasks in real-time.
- How to improve the relevance of GitHub Copilot Chat's suggestions by using scope referencing, slash commands, and agents to quickly complete routine tasks.
- Leveraging GitHub Copilot on GitHub.com for repository exploration, pull request assistance, agent tasks and collaborative code review workflows.
- How to interact with GitHub Copilot in CLI to get command explanations, suggestions, and execute commands to automate terminal workflows.
- How to set up GitHub Copilot CLI configurations, aliases, and manage privacy settings, including opting out of usage data collection.