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Copilot didn't read the file correctly after it has already successfully written into.

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
macos, swift
Domain
desktop-dev, developer-experience

Research direction

No source file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the property-list edit in Copilot for Xcode and compare the terminal write with what Copilot reports; the issue is done when a successful write is recognized without repeated alternative edits.

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Description

Describe the bug

When I ask copilot to revise a property list, it use terminal doing it. The file was revised successfully as I could see it in Xcode. But Copilot kept on thinking the written was failed and kept on to change many way to write again.

Versions

  • Copilot for Xcode: 0.44.147
  • Xcode: 26.0.1
  • macOS: 26.0.1

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