Copilot not working under SSH in newer versions

[CyberPhoenix90]

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I've had this issue for months where only older versions of copilot worked on a remote workspace over SSH and now that only new versions of copilot are supported anymore this effectively cut off my ability to use copilot.

Here's a list of facts related to my issue:

• It works without SSH on my local machine
• It worked in SSH before I was forced to update copilot
• It isn't an internet connection issue it worked consistently on the older version and did consistently not work on the new version
• It's not an SSH configuration issue
• Tried both copilot stable and prerelease without any difference
• Tried both vscode stable and insiders without any difference
• I do not have SSH FS extension
• The copilot icon shows up in the status bar but any attempt to interact with it prompts vscode to say "activating extensions" after which nothing happens and attempting to interact with copilot makes it do the same thing again
• Copilot output tab in vscode is completely blank
• The same issue occurs when using a different windows or linux PC as client
• The machine I am SSHing into is ubuntu linux and I do not have a different one to test
• It works locally even under WSL though
• Github copilot chat works on the machine where regular copilot does not
• Github copilot labs works on the machine where regular copilot does not
• I tried the remote.extensionKind config. No effect

I don't know what else to try but this has been a long standing issue I do not remember which version I was using that worked but it must have been over 6 months old by now and now it's defunct because the server doesn't support it anymore

I know similar issues have been posted but it was related to SSH FS which I never had installed
I didn't report this sooner because I was hoping that sooner or later a version would come out that doesn't have this problem and I was getting by with the outdated version

[tomfriwel]

My situation is exactly the same as yours, I have been using the old version of copilot until today to find that it is no longer supported and I can only upgrade to the latest version.

Github Copilot OUTPUT:
[INFO] [fetch] [2023-08-18T07:51:17.386Z] Your editor's Copilot extension, version "copilot/1.61.7372", is out of date. Please install a newer version to access this service. You may need to update your editor to install the newest extension version.

[tomfriwel]

When I used version v1.109.386 today, it worked fine.

[CyberPhoenix90]

Still broken for me. The only workaround I found is excluding some of my projects to keep the scope of the workspace small. I don't understand why the scope affects this it's not supposed to go through my entire codebase

[CyberPhoenix90]

I have an update to my issue:
Running copilot on the same machine where I experience the problem but in a smaller codebase of the same language works fine.

Meaning my main codebase in typescript triggers copilot to not work but in a smaller project that is also in typescript it works just fine despite it being the same machine over SSH as before.

This would suggest that the problem is a timeout or a crash that occurs based on the content of the users workspace. But since there seem to be no logs whatsoever I can't pinpoint the problem

[CyberPhoenix90]

It seems that the workspace is just too big for copilot. By reducing the scope copilot still takes more than a minute to load but it eventually does. My codebase is very large isn't there anything I can do? Why does it get slower to initialize as the codebase grows?

[tpope]

Please try the latest version. It should fix the issue with large projects.

[CyberPhoenix90]

Tried it and I confirm that it works now. Thanks!