Seeing full output from command cli runs (say "dotnet build")

[ayeltsov]

I gave copilot CLI and it left me frustrated.

It mostly hides the output of the commands it runs, giving me high-level summary only. It may be ok in many cases but I don't see how to see full output when I need it.

Example of the output:

 ✓ Build with msbuild and all direct refs
   $ cd <...> && msbuild <...> /t:Rebuild 2>&1 | Out-String -Width 500
    └ 102 lines...

 ● Now we see /reference:<...>\6.0.11\lib\net461\System.Text.Json.dll (6.0.11 is being used), but CS1705 still fires. The
   compiler command line even has /nowarn:1705 but it doesn't suppress this error.

   The CS1705 error is a hard compiler error that cannot be suppressed - it's baked into Roslyn/csc.exe as a non-suppressible check.

I could not figure out from help or from searching how to see full output.

I tried giving copilot instructions that it's not to compress the output, and it said "Understood. From now on I will show the exact command output without any summary or commentary until you say otherwise.", and still continued to give me summaries.

I'm not really sure if it's a user issue or a bug or by design.

If user issue, please let me know how one can see complete output.
If it's by design, I'll know this is not a tool for me. I don't mind compressed output, but I feel I should be able to inspect verbatim output of any past command that tool ran.

[agoncal]

Within copilot you can expand the timeline with ctrl+o:

Timeline shortcuts
 ctrl+o        expand all timeline / collapse timeline
 ctrl+r        expand recent timeline / collapse timeline

And less user friendly, you can tail -f the logs and see all the operations: tail -f ~/.copilot/logs/process-1769432650729-4375.log. And you can even increase the log level if you need with copilot --log-level debug