Copilot Workspace: Follow ups and file search improvements

This week’s Copilot Workspace updates center around improving multi-file code generation and search capabilities. Alongside continued improvements to performance and reliability, we are releasing two features: follow ups and a simplified file search experience.

Let’s dive in!

Follow ups

When you’re working within a large repository that has complex file dependencies, even simple changes can have significant impacts across the codebase. Invoking Copilot Workspace’s new follow up capability triggers a thorough check across the codebase, automatically editing the necessary files if any follow ups are detected.

Whether you have changed a function name, modified function parameters, or modified a shared class definition, Copilot’s follow ups can swiftly handle dependent fixes across your repository, saving you time and increasing confidence in your changes before you raise a PR!

File search experience improvements

We’ve updated the file search experience to help you maintain context in your file tree while searching for other files to open. Rather than filtering the file tree on search, we now return results in a separate menu that searches the entire repository rather than what is currently visible in the tree. You can open files in new tabs directly from this search.

Providing feedback

Please give your feedback in our GitHub Discussion. We’d love to hear your thoughts!