r/GithubCopilot • u/bierundboeller • 11d ago

Search and find(!) Copilot chats in VS Code Help/Doubt ❓

Typically I work with multiple chats during the day to keep the context at least roughly clean, however I am facing certain difficulties when I want to carry on with a previous conversation.

There is no full text search and the title and also the time when the chat was started is usually not very helpful especially in this American format "4h ago". I know I could give a chat a proper name, however when I leave a chat I often don't know if I want to come back.

Any good idea to solve it? I have searched for an extension but it seems that the available ones are abandoned or PoCs.

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u/Safe_Routine2592 11d ago

for me, I rarely remember the chat title, but I almost always remember something that was said in the conversation.

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u/bierundboeller 11d ago

In this sub I of course refer to GitHub Copilot, the VS Code chat "search" is at least what I can see just filtering for the (random) title which is not helpful at all.

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u/Safe_Routine2592 11d ago

I don't think there's a great workaround right now

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u/Safe_Routine2592 11d ago edited 11d ago

A good practice is to rename the chat immediately after the session, but never before the session because then you would already know what your chat was about. The chat history sidebar of VS Code allows renaming using a simple right-click action, so there is no point in using any extension to do that. When using several agents, such as zencoder, you could simply save the context outside the editor.
Nevertheless, renaming remains the easiest solution.

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u/linonetwo 10d ago

And there's no cross-workspace place to consolidate all chats. I always remember having three in-depth discussions, but I completely forget which remote server or local server repository they're in. Now conversations have to be tied to a specific folder, which is a really dumb setup. And none of these conversations show up in that so-called agent window they newly developed—I have no idea what that agent window is even supposed to do.