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Create and manage knowledge bases to improve code quality, consistency, and efficiency

Create and manage knowledge bases to improve code quality, consistency, and efficiency - Github Copilot Tutorial

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Create and manage knowledge bases to improve code quality, consistency, and efficiency

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- [Tim] I'm going to reveal all these bullet points at once because it's been too long since I've whiteboarded. I will show you these steps in the demo, but let me just give you the high level. I had mentioned that knowledge bases are simply GitHub repos that you've either aggregated your dev docs in or they're already in place. It doesn't matter. A knowledge base is basically a container of these repos. And by creating a knowledge base in your org, you're telling GitHub to index the MD and MDX content there. And then with GitHub Copilot, they can make use of those knowledge bases. I would agree with my second bullet point that well maintained KBs or GitHub Copilot knowledge bases definitely yield happy results I've found with happier developers in terms of consistency. Now let me show you the VS Code UI here because it's not really intuitive in my humble opinion. I'm going to get into whiteboard mode again. You can access knowledge bases from your supported IDE, again VS Code in our…

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