Copilot does not have access to project repo, asking for switching account everytime I pull or push

[satyajitacc]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot in GitHub

Body

Please provide a solution. Copilot does not have access to project repo. Not sure if this is an authentic way to ask "Provide full repo access to copilot". Whenever I try to pull or push in my local branch in Vscode, it always ask me to switch my account (if I am in copilot account). Is there a way to use a single accoutn for both my repo & copilot chat or is this the default behaviour that I have to deal with everytime?

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[Nickalus12]

Yeah, this happens because VS Code’s built-in GitHub authentication tries to use the same active session for both Copilot and Git operations.

The cleanest fix is to invite your "Copilot account" as a collaborator to the repository. If you can use that single account for both, the prompts will stop.

If you must keep the accounts separate, I'd suggest switching your local repo to use SSH instead of HTTPS. This bypasses the VS Code credential helper for Git actions:

git remote set-url origin git@github.com:username/repo.git

By using SSH keys for the repo, VS Code won't try to use your Copilot login for pushes/pulls. You can check your current setup with git remote -v. Lmk if that helps.