Feedback, customization. Deleting comments.

[arthurwolf]

Hey.

I just got access to it, and I'm trying to have it add a feature.

(is this the right place to provide feedback on Copilot Workspace itself? I clicked on «Give Feedback» and it linked to this repo)

The work it's doing is pretty good, there's definitely a lot of potential there.

However, some stuff makes it completely unusable.

For example, I'm asking it to do something that will add two methods to a class, it correctly adds the methods, with the right code, but it also deletes all comments in the file/class.

It does that almost all of the time as far as I've seen. That makes it essentially unusable.

Reading the docs, pretty sure this is at least in part due to : https://github.com/githubnext/copilot-workspace-user-manual/blob/main/tips-and-tricks.md#consider-generating-new-files and https://github.com/githubnext/copilot-workspace-user-manual/blob/main/known-issues.md#rewriting-large-files

( Is there some newsletter or other way to be warned when new features will be added, so I can know to come back to test this again once partial file edits are implemented ? )

Adding entries in the «plan» such as « make sure absolutely no comment is removed from the original file to the new version of the file. » or modifying an existing plan entry to add « do not delete any comments » does nothing / does not change anything.

If there was some kind of feature to customize processing/code output, it would be very valuable. It would let me fix this issue potentially,by asking it not to delete comments, but it'd also allow me to add preferences (I want my method names in snake_case, etc), something I can't do currently (or at least I didn't find how to).

Am I missing something, or is this just because it's early / beta ?

Thanks. Amazing project/work.

[dsyme]

Hi @arthurwolf

Thanks for the feedback! There's a discord channel if you'd like to use that.

We've had a few instances of deleting comments. If your code is open source and you have a sharing link please send one through.