Question

A developer at Contoso reports that files under a proprietary /vendor directory are still receiving Copilot code completions, even though a repository administrator recently added a content exclusion rule for that directory. When you inspect where content exclusion rules can be defined, which statement correctly describes how Copilot determines which exclusion rules apply to a given file in the IDE?

Accepted Answer

Copilot combines the applicable content exclusion rules configured at both the repository level and the organization level, and any matching rule from either source excludes the file.

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Only organization-level content exclusion rules are enforced in the IDE; repository-level rules are ignored unless the organization has no policy defined.

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Repository-level rules always override organization-level rules, so if the repository rule fails to match, the file is never excluded regardless of organization settings.

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Content exclusion rules must be defined identically in both the repository and organization settings, or Copilot disregards them entirely.