Conflicting statements regarding GitHub Copilot content exclusion support in IDEs #41288

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5. Sharra-writes commented on Nov 17, 2025

   

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   @KyleEales The way the instructions for checking to see if Copilot is ignoring excluded files are written, I'm guessing the basic chat mode supports excluding files. But at this point there are so many versions/modes for Copilot it might be worthwhile to list the supported ones explicitly. I don't know what all of them are, even using Copilot almost daily. That note is also really unclear in its wording, so I'm going to clarify that for sure.

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