Flight Log / dotnet/msbuild #11952
Fix always-true condition in LazyItemEvaluator metadata expansion logic — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in dotnet/msbuild on Jun 5, 2025; merged clean in 11.9 d: +11 −25, 2 files, 11 reviews.
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GitHub Copilot opened a fix in dotnet/msbuild for an always-true condition in NeedToExpandMetadataForEachItem, within LazyItemEvaluator. The change removes a redundant if/else branch across two files, with five commits, 11 additions and 25 deletions. The reviewer accepted the smaller code. It merged clean with zero change requests after 284.77 hours.
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This PR fixes a logical bug in the `NeedToExpandMetadataForEachItem` method where a condition was always evaluating to true, causing unnecessary metadata expansion and breaking an optimization path. ## Problem In `LazyItemEvaluator.LazyItemOperation.cs` line 293, the condition: ```csharp if (_ref…
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