Flight Log / microsoft/genaiscript #1742
Improve GitHub authentication error handling with actionable guidance — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in microsoft/genaiscript on Jul 13, 2025; merged clean in 5.1 h, merged by @pelikhan: +25,906 −3,485, 302 files, 2 reviews.
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- fix
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GitHub Copilot opened a fix in microsoft/genaiscript to replace generic GitHub authentication errors with actionable guidance, including token resolution through the GitHub CLI (gh). The change spanned 302 files across four commits. Two reviews recorded zero change requests and zero review comments. The pull request merged clean after 5.14 hours.
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This PR fixes the issue where users received generic error messages when GitHub authentication failed, particularly when using the GitHub CLI (`gh`) for token resolution. ## Problem When users attempted to use GitHub models without proper authentication, they would encounter unhelpful error messag…
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- —committedcopilot-swe-agent[bot]
- —committedPeli de Halleux
- —committedcopilot-swe-agent[bot]
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- —committedPeli de Halleux
- —reviewed
- Jul 14, 2025mergedpelikhan
- Jul 14, 2025closedpelikhan
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