Context injection glitch

[CreateEXE]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot in GitHub

Body

So I was trying to merge some repos , and I got most of the way through it (phase 3/4) but now regardless of what I prompt I get "message too long" error. Considering the fact I can send a single word and get the error I'm assuming that it's context injection overloading it.

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[Kunal241207]

This sounds more like the conversation running into a context or request size limit than a context injection issue. Even if you're only sending a single word, Copilot may still be including the accumulated chat history, repository context, or other attached context in the request.

I'd try:

• Starting a new Copilot conversation.
• Refreshing/reopening GitHub or your editor.
• Breaking the merge into smaller steps instead of continuing the same chat.

If it still happens in a completely fresh conversation with minimal context, then it may be a bug on GitHub's side rather than anything in your prompt. It would also help to know whether you're using Copilot on GitHub.com, VS Code, or another client.

[CreateEXE]

I'm slightly confused, I was under the impression that context injection included a combination of those things based on relevance. I may just have terms confused, but I'm pretty sure we're talking about the same thing. I was using the retry button to try to revert the chat session a little, it worked once but then hit the error wall again. When I got it to revert the first time I prompted it to break down the final phase into 2 parts (maybe wasn't enough), but haven't managed to get it back again.

[ThePhantom-S]

Try the following steps :

1. Start a new chat.

2. Summarize the status of the first 3 phases.

3. Paste only the code needed for the final phase.

[CreateEXE]

I was trying to merge almost 10 different repos into a single application so I probably should have expected this, it got through 3/4 though, since there's no way I saw to just delete messages or anything I've been using the retry button. Does doing that revert the pushed files attached to the message?