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GitHub rebuilds the PR view in the Copilot app to handle comment heights

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GitHub says rendering a million-line diff is easy, but comments break the view because their heights depend on markdown wrapping, expanded details, open reply boxes, and images still loading. The post says the team rebuilt the PR view in the GitHub Copilot app to handle this variable comment height, and it links a thread explaining how.

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Rendering a million-line diff is the easy part. 👀

Comments are what break it. Their height depends on markdown wrapping, expanded details, open reply boxes, and images still loading (none of which you know until you render).

Here's how we rebuilt the PR view in the GitHub Copilot app 🧵

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