Re-requesting copilot review should dismiss copilot's past comments as outdated

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My gripe with Copilot review is that when re-requesting copilot to review after making some changes, the initial review comments from Copilot are left behind. I believe it's this way because Copilot as a reviewer acts/behaves like a human reviewer.

However, at least 99% of the time on the re-request, those old comments from Copilot are now irrelevant. Copilot/AI review can catch some issues like a human review can, but it is canonically not a human review. Especially in terms of behavior: Copilot review is more looking at a "snapshot" of the diff, codebase, and other things, and the story of how why code was changed is just irrelevant to Copilot. Human review comments are different, and maintaining certain comments to show the "story" of how code was iterated on in a PR could be useful context to show off. That story is just never important when it comes from Copilot review though.

For now, I'll keep dismissing Copilot's prior review comments every time when I re-request a Copilot review. But I will feel silly, and ever so slightly annoyed, that I have to do this in the first place.

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