Handling long files

[rebekaburnett]

Type: Bug

Everytime I ask Copilot Chat a question when I have a related file open, it repeats the entire file contents instead of just giving me relevant information. Some files are over 300 lines long, so it takes forever for it to print all of that and I can't see what's the difference anyway. I would recommend that it didn't do that by default when the files are over 20 lines or so.

Extension version: 0.24.1 VS Code version: Code 1.97.2 (e54c774e0add60467559eb0d1e229c6452cf8447, 2025-02-12T23:20:35.343Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100 Modes:

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[meyerscolton]

I have the same problem except since my file is 1000 lines, copilot just takes forever trying to come up with all the edits and then errors out because the response is too large