Flight Log / dotnet/sdk #49541
Fix dotnet new "Add project to solution" postAction to find .slnx files — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in dotnet/sdk on Jun 24, 2025; merged clean in 29.2 d: +70 −24, 2 files, 3 reviews.
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The agent fixed the dotnet new postAction that adds a project to the solution so it finds .slnx files. The method used a null-coalescing operator on a helper that returns an empty list, not null, so the search never ran. Two files changed, 70 additions and 24 deletions, across three commits. It merged with zero change requests after 701.5 hours.
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The `FindSolutionFilesAtOrAbovePath` method in `DotnetSlnPostActionProcessor` was incorrectly using the null-coalescing operator (`??`) with `FileFindHelpers.FindFilesAtOrAbovePath`, which returns an empty list (not `null`) when no files are found. This caused the method to never search for `.slnx` …
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