About GitHub Copilot Enterprise
GitHub Copilot Enterprise builds the power of generative AI into an editor extension that suggests code in real time, but focuses on becoming accessible throughout more phases of the development workflow.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise Features
Let's learn about the new features that come with GitHub Copilot Enterprise.
In this section we’ll be going over the following:
- Knowledge bases and custom models
- Chat customization to your codebase
- Pull request summaries
- Documentation search and summaries using docsets
- Code review
Knowledge bases and custom models
Organization owners utilizing GitHub Copilot Enterprise can create customized knowledge bases, bringing together Markdown documentation across one or more repositories, pulling from code snippets, documentation, and other markdown files to help train GitHub Copilot Enterprise to the organization’s specific needs. This is unique to other GitHub offerings and is only offered for GitHub Copilot Enterprise customers.
Having your organization’s own curated knowledge base boosts productivity, collaboration, and efficiency by allowing your developers to get tailored GitHub Copilot assistance while contributing and reviewing each other's work, making their work faster, and making it easier to stick to your organization standards.
With GitHub Copilot Enterprise, you can also fine-tune a private, custom model, which is built on a company’s specific knowledge base and private code. Organizations that utilize GitHub Copilot Enterprise’s custom models enable more accurate and contextually relevant suggestions and responses. This enhances their developers’ experience and productivity, allowing them to focus on more important tasks.
For more on creating a knowledge base, at the end of this module will be a link to the article “Managing Copilot knowledge bases.”
Next up, we’ll cover chats customized based on codebases.
Chat customized to your codebase
GitHub Copilot Enterprise allows developers to use GitHub Copilot Chat to create prompts that are customized to your codebase. This feature opens up a world of new possibilities, enabling developers to apply it directly within issues, pull requests, code files within Codespaces, and even directly on repositories.
By initiating Copilot Chat threads within these environments, team members can harness Copilot's tailored suggestions to get the information they need from that space or enhance their coding experience while contributing.
Whether collaborating within a specific code space, pull request, issue, or repository; developers can seamlessly generate, discuss, and refine code suggestions specific to their project’s context. With the ability to comment on, edit, or accept these suggestions directly within the chat interface, teams can iteratively refine code in real time, fostering efficient collaboration and enhancing code quality across the development lifecycle.
Now let’s review pull request summaries.
Pull request summaries
GitHub Copilot Enterprise allows developers to generate summaries of pull requests based on the code changes. This aims to reduce the time and efforts needed to create informative pull request descriptions, enhancing understanding and accelerating review processes allowing the reviewers to quickly grasp what the changes involve and areas requiring attention.
Now let’s discuss documentation search and summaries using docsets.
Documentation search and summaries using docsets
Docsets are private custom collections of internal code and documentation tailored to organizations' specific needs and workflows. GitHub Copilot Enterprise docset management can help you find the answers you're looking for and present them to you succinctly. For example, GitHub Copilot Enterprise docset management can answer specific questions about using a particular library or framework, so that you don't have to search the whole docset.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise docset management also references existing documentation related to your questions so that you can find more contextual information. This personalized approach streamlines development workflows, ensuring that solutions provided are precisely aligned with the intricacies of individual projects and workflows. Next up, we’ll go over code review.
Code review
Copilot code review takes collaboration to the next level by providing insightful assistance right within your codebase.
Just like in a code editor, Copilot can explain selected code snippets throughout your codebase, helping developers understand their teammates' intent and providing clarity on complex portions of code. This feature empowers developers to delve deeper into the codebase to gain valuable insights and foster a deeper understanding of the project's architecture and design principles.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise vs. GitHub Copilot for Business vs. GitHub Copilot for Individual
Now, let's review the differences between GitHub Copilot Enterprise, GitHub Copilot Business, and GitHub Copilot for Individuals.
| GitHub Copilot Enterprise | GitHub Copilot for Business | GitHub Copilot for Individual | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collaborative Chat within pull requests | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Lives on Github.com | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plugs right into your editor | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pull request summaries | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Copilot docset management | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Copilot code review | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Zero data retention for code snippets and usage telemetry | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Organization-wide policy management | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
| Integration with security tools | ✓ | Limited | ✕ |
| Audit logging and reporting | ✓ | Limited | ✕ |
| VPN proxy support via self-signed certificates | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
Wondering how GitHub Copilot Enterprise can help you and your team? Want to get started with GitHub Copilot Enterprise? Let's learn how in our next unit.