How to ship from issue to merge with the GitHub Copilot app | demo

GitHub demonstrates a workflow for shipping code from an issue through to a merged pull request using the GitHub Copilot app.

Overview

The demo focuses on keeping issue and pull request work in one place to reduce context switching.

Key points covered:

• Working across issues and pull requests without losing context
  • The GitHub Copilot app is shown as a single place to manage the flow from issue to merge.
• Using isolated work trees to avoid stashing
  • The demo highlights using Git worktrees to manage multiple active branches at the same time without needing to stash local changes.
• Handling slow CI with agent merge
  • The workflow includes using agent merge to deal with slow CI and automatically merge branches when checks complete.

Links from the video description:

• GitHub Copilot app download: https://gh.io/gh-copilot-app-download