GitHub Copilot Chat can help you understand the content, functionality, and status of a pull request.
IntroductionYou can ask Copilot different questions about a pull request, from different views within the pull request. For example, you can ask Copilot to summarize a pull request, or explain what has changed within specific files or lines of code in a pull request.
Get a summary of a pull requestYou can ask Copilot to summarize a pull request, or to provide information about the status of a pull request.
The following prompts are examples of the kind of questions you can ask Copilot to help you find out about a pull request.
Summarize this pull request
What is the current status of this pull request?
What are the main changes in this pull request?
You can ask Copilot to explain the changes made to a specific file in a pull request, or to provide information about the status of a file in a pull request.
What are the changes in this file?
What is the status of this file in the pull request?
You can ask Copilot to explain specific lines of code in a pull request, or to provide information about the status of those lines.
Explain the selected lines of code
What do these lines of code do?
You can ask Copilot to explain why a workflow has failed in a pull request, and provide suggestions for how to fix the issue.
On GitHub, navigate to a pull request in a repository.
Scroll to the bottom of the page, then, next to one of the failing checks, click Details.
At the top right of the page, click next to the icon, then click Assistive to open the Copilot Chat panel.
If the panel contains a previous conversation you had with Copilot, click the plus sign icon at the top right of the Copilot panel to start a new conversation.
At the bottom of the Copilot Chat panel, in the prompt box, ask Copilot why the pull request has failed and press Enter.
Copilot responds with information about why the pull request failed. Copilot may also provide suggestions for how to fix the issue.
If Copilot has provided steps to fix the issue, you can follow the steps to resolve the problem.
Why has this workflow failed?
What can I do to fix this issue?
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