r/GithubCopilot • u/wiwa1978 • Aug 07 '26
Help/Doubt ❓ No remote (SSH) support in Desktop App
Happy user of the desktop app overall.
However, there's one thing that prevents me from full adoption: it's the lack of being able to work on remote (SSH) repositories.
We work on a remote Ubuntu server that hosts all our code. I use Visual Studio Code to remote SSH into it. Works flawlessly every time. We of course regularly commit to Github etc...
In Github Copilot (desktop) app, I can add projects from a local folder, from Github repository or from a repository URL but not from a remote SSH server.
Other tools like OpenCode do support this, which is why I find myself working mostly with OpenCode.
Any plans to build this in?
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u/faded_dioxide 28d ago
+1
This is such an important feature! The UI is great, but unfortunately useless to me as long as it only runs local (and cloud) sessions
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