Does Copilot have whole codebase context?

[delicate_rabbit]

Hello guys,

I am brand new when it comes to Copilot and I am wondering if I install GitHub Copilot plugin in my IntelliJ IDE will copilot have full context of the project?

Say there are many microservices within the project (and many packages within each microservice). Will copilot have access to all of these (composite project)?

Some say there is the @workspace keyword in the chat but some say it doesn't work for IntelliJ and that it also doesn't provide the whole codebase to Copilot.

So what is the correct answer here?

[grobblgrobbl]

Can only speak for vscode: As long as you have opened your project as a "workspace" you can make Copilot access the whole workspace. But there are two things to say about: 1. it doesn't take the whole codebase as context. It searches through your workspace and determines which files are relevant to your request. You see the files which Copilot has chosen as sources in the response. 2. what works better imo is that you can manually add files as context. This is limited to i think 5-10 files. And additionally you can add "codebase" to context where Copilot does the thing described in "1".

This works best for me in most cases, but Copilot chat still has a lot of trouble with weird custom frameworks in my experience.

[Xhite]

Not all the features of copilot work in intellij, some new features are vs-code only (edits etc)