Where to find GitHub Copilot Chat History ? #129888
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Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately I am not able to provide any extra information about this issue and I can't find a solution for it: this is why I am asking the community. |
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I was wondering the same. My workaround for the time being is using the "Chat: Export Chat" command in VSCode in conjunction with the GitHub Copilot Chat extension. |
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Still an issue. |
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same issue here |
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man i need help as well cuz i tried to modifie my code and its all messed up now |
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Is there a history for the Inline Chat though? If I close the dialog and then I want to give more prompts for the same prompt, I am lost. |
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GitHub Copilot Chat histories are stored per workspace—even if you didn’t create one manually, VS Code will generate one for you automatically. Normally, you can transfer histories between workspaces (and machines) using the The
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I wanted to bring all these chat histories directly into my workspace, in a human readable format (markdown), so I built an extension to autosave chat history into my project folder. These markdowns are easy to version, search, and share. They can't be imported like the json files, but that's ok cause I can always # reference them from another chat. |
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The current history icon, especially in its context, looks like a revert icon - I never thought to click it to see my other/past chats and only discovered it due to lag in a remote desktop session... Not that I know what would be better; I want to say something like a tube-map-style icon like the version control history icon. But, erh, that would probably have the same connotation in that context. Maybe 3 overlapping speech bubbles? |
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There's also an issue where copilot chats aren't saved in a liveshare session |
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I changed some files in a project 2 days and before committing it my Ubuntu crashed due to SSD issue. After reset the whole Ubuntu set up I was expecting to apply those changes to those files from chat history but guess what, No History at all. Somehow it should be saved with an account and be restored on other machines with same VScode/Github account. |
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If you use Github Copilot via the web: after you're logged into Github, go to github.com/copilot - you will be taken to a "New conversation", however there will be a history (of the past 30 days?) conversations in the left side bar, which you can then click and access. |
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I found that on VS Code Server (Linux) the Copilot Chat history is saved under: ~/.vscode-server/data/User/HistoryEach hashed folder corresponds to a workspace.
This helped me recover my previous sessions. Hope it helps! |
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Try opening command palette (Cmd + Shift + P on Mac) and use "Chat: Show Chats..." - this showed previous chats that I can switch to. However, not yet sure if this works if I close the VS Code session and re-open the same workspace OR reopen a different one. For now, I exported the chats to save them as a back up. |
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Is there a way that we could retrieve old Copilot chats in VSCode, be available somehow into Github's Copilot site? If it exists, i can't find it... |
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Intellij: VSCode: |
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To ti is completely beyond me, why there isn't a feature to store the chat history online, like there for the standard Microsoft Copilot. |
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Where can I find GitHub Copilot Chat History ?
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Hello.
I have been chatting with Copilot a couple of times today and I was wondering how to retrieve the chat (including suggested code snippets) from before but when I open the Threads dropdown I only see a "New Thread" selection.
When looking for it myself I only found answers related to MS Copilot or to where to find logs (which do not include code suggestions (and the format is not helpful anyway).
Unfortunately I am not able to provide any extra information about this issue and I can't find a solution.
Where can I find a copy of all my previous chats?
Thank you.
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