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[UX] I never was able to use Copilot remote agent #59

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@SilasK

I tried 3-4 times the Github copilot remote agent and never with satisfactory results. here is one

Describe your experience
I wanted to hand over a change to github copilot remote from a already forked branch. It made some changes and created a PR. It could not test the fastapi app due to firewall and probably redis server.

Using the interface I could not select the branch merged into. and before I saw it I got a merge commit in the main branch. I asked Copilot to revert and to add the merge commit to the source branch, but it could not resolve the git hostory also the branch was already deleted. even if I did not clicked on delete.

Suggestions for improvement
Ideally I would like that the remote agent makes the changes accessible in a discussion. that it is easy to continue working on it. e.g. even with the self-discussion it had.
In this case I would have just run the test locally.

Alternatively, make a fully remote agent. but not as a continuation of a chat history. e.g. like seting up a new workspace.

Let the user describe the changes to made, ask some pre-flight questions and then make the PR.

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