mccMay 19, 2025

Discovery: The "copilot" bot user that Microsoft will soon be flooding your github repos with garbage content from is implemented in some sort of special way that exempts it from the "block" feature you would normally be able to block other users/bots with

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159749

Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories · community · Discussion #159749

Select Topic Area Product Feedback Feature Area Issues Body I find the following two news items on the front page: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-19-creating-issues-with-copilot-on-github-co...

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Show threadsumanthvepaMay 20, 2025
@mcc Did I understand correctly that a GitHub bot will automatically submit pull requests to my repo? WTF?
Show threadmccMay 20, 2025
@sumanthvepa if a user asks it to, yeah
Show threadtbodtMay 20, 2025
@mcc @sumanthvepa i think that user has to be a repo committer, since that's the permission you need to assign issues? i could be wrong
Show threadmcc
@tbodt @sumanthvepa what about for PRs
May 20, 2025 at 12:50pmTusky
Show threadsumanthvepaMay 20, 2025

@mcc @tbodt
I'm okay with a developer using AI to generate a commit message or a PR. I use a custom built auto-committer myself. I follows the commit message guidelines we have and uses an LLM to generate message in the our preferred commit format.

If a dev wants to use GitHub copilot generated commit messages and PRs (we don't really use PRs -- all devs have commit rights.) I'm fine with it.

What I don't want is an AI *automatically* generating them, without being initiated by a dev.

Show threadtbodtMay 20, 2025
@mcc @sumanthvepa this is for PRs. if i'm reading the docs right, you make a copilot PR happen by assigning some issue to the bot