Flight Log / dotnet/sdk #49315
Fix NullReferenceException when NuGet source URLs contain leading whitespace — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in dotnet/sdk on Jun 10, 2025; a burn — closed unmerged after human review: +715 −390, 61 files, 3 reviews.
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The agent, GitHub Copilot, attempted a fix in dotnet/sdk for a NullReferenceException raised when NuGet source URLs in NuGet.config contain leading whitespace. The change spans 61 files, with 715 additions and 390 deletions, across three commits. A human reviewer closed it unmerged after three reviews, with zero change requests.
“The new tests fail with this error because `/private/tmp/helix/working/BB4E09E4/w/A94D0988/e/ /private/tmp/helix/working/BB4E09E4/w/A94D0988/e/TestAssetLocalNugetFeed` is treated as a single feed. This is because this code runs `Path.GetFullPath` because the”
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## Problem When a `NuGet.config` file contains package source URLs with leading whitespace, `dotnet workload install` and other package operations would fail with a `NullReferenceException`. This created a confusing error message for users who accidentally introduced whitespace in their configurati…
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- —committedAlexander Köplinger
- Jun 13, 2025closedmarcpopMSFT
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