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Exclude specific files from GitHub Copilot suggestions

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Exclude specific files from GitHub Copilot suggestions

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- [Instructor] Right. Well, as a developer you almost certainly use Git for version control, and you know about Git Ignore, where you can have Git tracking ignore sensitive files. For example, build artifacts that you don't need to transmit, and so on. Well, similarly, GitHub Copilot allows us to configure rules for having the AI exclude specific files or directories in our workspace from its suggestion set. And the reason for this is simple, privacy, avoid suggesting sensitive code. We do this specifically by adding .copilotignore file to the root of your repository, and then specifying your patterns. Again, the idea here is that we're preventing the AI from using noisy or irrelevant files in its suggestion context. Here we can see an ignore array. And this is all, I'm not going to say junk, but it's stuff that were certainly secrets and end, we would never put up into source control and GitHub anyway. You see what I'm saying? That's all this exam object is about. It's a really…

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