bug: Embedding will not update since 7 days

[PriNova]

Version

1.10.1 & latest pre-release

Describe the bug

When entering chat mode with the 'enhanced context' feature enabled, the embeddings failed to update after 24 hours, despite the code being current with the upstream repository on the 'main' branch.

Expected behavior

I anticipate receiving an update at least every 24 hours.

Additional context

The screenshot provided includes the commit history on the right side, the log of the 'Cody' output, and hints related to the commit hash.

[PriNova]

The only workaround which helped was to delete the embedding file. Then it starts indexing new.

[FelipeMorandini]

The only workaround which helped was to delete the embedding file. Then it starts indexing new.

Where do I find this file? I'm having the same issue.

[PriNova]

I want to bump up this issue. Embeddings blended with keywords are a more reliable context fetch mechanism than keyword alone. The cody-engine does not check the current commit hash with the one used during embedding correctly,

If you need support fixing the cody-engine (I guess it is written in Go) then we can talk.

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[PriNova]

bump

[kurutah]

what's the point of embedding even a few days from now...

[PriNova]

what's the point of embedding even a few days from now...

For the context fetching in Cody exists two mechanism. one is the keyword search based on the prompt input and the other are with embeddings. 1

The keyword search is practical if you know the terms of the codebase.
The embeddings are more like a fuzzy search, but understands code structure, code semantics and so on.
Combined in Cody are a very high reliable fetching mechanism for context in my experience.

If code is changing, for example data structure, refactoring of functions etc, and the embeddings are outdated, then Cody will provide out-dated code.

I made experiments with keyword search only and blended (keyword + embeddings) and the latter brings much more reliable context to the point.

[PriNova]

Closed because of changing embedding strategy

[kurutah]

Closed because of changing embedding strategy

Can I read somewhere what was changed? For now, in my project, it's all the same...

[PriNova]

Can I read somewhere what was changed? For now, in my project, it's all the same...

Hello @kurutah
The changes are an iterative process and are not yet available as a stable version. As soon as the process is complete, this will certainly be announced in the blog at https://sourcegraph.com/blog