From the course: AI-Powered Development: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

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Write pull request descriptions

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We can also use Copilot to help with pull requests. It plays two main roles here, drafting the pull request title and description, and reviewing changes before you submit the pull request. To use these features, you need to have this extension installed, the GitHub pull request extension. And once that's installed, you can go to this icon on your activity bar, and at the top you'll see it says GitHub, and then you'll see there's pull request section, And at the bottom is the Issues section. As you can see, I have one open pull request at the moment. I'm going to add a second pull request for this branch. So what I'll do is click here. And then I'm on this branch, feature commit with Copilot, and I want to pull it into this commit with Copilot branch. So I've selected the base branch here. And then let's take a look at the bottom. The challenge is that pull requests often include multiple commits spread out over days. So I have four commits that have affected four files. Manually…

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