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GitHub Copilot can now tell developers when its suggestions match code in a public repository



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GitHub Copilot has changed how developers write their code. However, it can also create issues when it creates code similar to what’s already available in another public repository. In 2022, GitHub launched a feature that allowed users to block suggestions of matching public code automatically. According to a GitHub spokesperson, this system would trigger less than 1% of the time. But sometimes, developers may want to see what these code fragments are — either to use them (within the licensing restrictions set up by their companies) or to maybe use the entire library this snippet came from.
So to find a middle ground, GitHub today launched a private beta of a code referencing fe …

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