Can Copilot finally fix the long existing writing to wrong file issue?
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
Research direction
No source files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by reproducing the multi-file refactoring failure with the listed Copilot for Xcode, Xcode, and macOS versions, and inspect logs from ~/Library/Logs/GitHubCopilot/; done means edits reach the intended files without overwriting another file and a regression test covers the behavior.
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Description
Describe the bug
When writing to more than one files, especially when refactoring codes, copilot for Xcode likely to writing to the wrong file. That means it overwrites content to a file should be written to another. This issue is so big. As we have to drop all changes and both times and tokens are wasted.
Currently, I have to switch Copilot CLI to refactor code, which has no issue. So I think if this issue is related to Xcode, you may be consider using the raw file on the disk instead of operate them through Xcode.
Versions
- Copilot for Xcode: 0.44.148
- Xcode: 26.0.1
- macOS: 26.0.1
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Additional context
- Dominant language
- Swift
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