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Agree this would be helpful feature. There come a time when you want to come back to earlier Copilot chat entries. A way to save select output would be value add. |
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You still can see the chat history, but yeah, an export option would be nice. I asked it about exporting and it said to take a screenshot or to copy and paste the conversation to a text file. I keep a journal for programming, and I've been taking advantage of ChatGPT's individual URLs for conversation threads to refer back to various queries and it'd be great if there was a similar feature in Copilot Chat |
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How do I get old chat logs? Sometimes my chats disappear. Where are they stored? For example, on a mac I noticed there's a file called "Code - Insiders" in ~/Library/Application Support. Are the chats saved here? |
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You can export a Copilot Chat session in Visual Studio Code to a JSON file via If you would like to read your chat session outside of VSC i made a python script that formats the .json file and puts a more readable version in a .txt file. |
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You saved my day |
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FYI import failed on a recently exported chat. |
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Thank you for the script. It did not work, I guess the json structure has changed, but it served as inspiration for me to stop being lazy and doing what I needed: I've created an script that creates an markdown from the chat json. Hope it helps someone... |
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It did! This is awesome, and exactly what I needed today. So, it is very much appreciated. Thank you! |
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I see the python provided above is nice to have, I only saw that after I used copilot to help come up with this that I find is pretty nice too: |
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In the chat window on top click this icon |
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That wasn't available when this question was asked. I'm currently accessing the icon, but no chat sessions are showing even though I use it pretty regularly |
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@joshuadanpeterson yeah it's weird how it behaves. I tried closing vscode now and it preserved a chat session I had started yesterday, but for some reason it doesn't have some some other previous sessions from few days ago. Would love to have a proper history. |
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For me, exporting and then importing the immediate result ends in It would seem to be quite important in the long term for a more automated method of keeping keep chat history with the resulting code, in the shorter term a way of being more comfortable that your chats aren't liable to be lost due to some action/inaction |
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Hi, I just ran into this same error myself. Did you ever resolve your issue? Or is this a persistent issue? |
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To export your chats to JSON or Markdown, see my comment here: microsoft/vscode-copilot-release#417 (comment):
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what about visual studio? I am developing a WPF application with github copilot chat. |
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I don't know anything about Microsoft Visual Studio. I've never seen nor used it. |
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ha, the right-clicking and Copy All is very nice, can't believe I didn't see that... it's almost identical to what I was using and posted above as |
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Currently, I am using Copilot Chat to assist in the development of a repository's code. While I can easily synchronize the code to other computers, I cannot do the same for the chat history of Copilot Chat. This inconvenience me when developing on other computers. I hope that in the future, there will be an added feature to export and import chat history.
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