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Use @github for repository insights

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- [Instructor] Earlier in this course, we looked at how to use Copilot Chat to pull information about our GitHub repository. Since this chapter is all about Git and GitHub, let's review that feature again and see how it can really help with our day-to-day development. So in my chat window, I've started, I changed the context at GitHub, and then I can ask a question like this, how many branches are there in this repository? And while I'm typing in the next prompt, it comes back and says, yes, there are three branches in this repository. Tells me the name of the repository and the name of the branches. Now I wanna see if there's any open issues. Yes, there are three open issues and it gives the names of those issues. And then finally, I can ask if there's any pull requests and I see there's one active pull request. There's more you can do with this, but that's gives you a quick example. This is incredibly handy because we…

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