Flight Log / microsoft/testfx #5815
Obsolete Assert.Equals and add obsolete Assert.ReferenceEquals — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in microsoft/testfx on Jun 18, 2025; merged clean in 21.3 h: +4,236 −854, 82 files, 9 reviews.
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- 21.3 h
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- refactor
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Copilot took on a refactor in microsoft/testfx. It changed Assert.Equals from throwing an exception to being marked obsolete and added an obsolete Assert.ReferenceEquals, so removed methods would not fail silently. The change spanned 82 files, 16 commits, 4236 additions and 854 deletions. Nine reviews, four review comments, no change requests. Merged after 21.34 hours.
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Changes `Assert.Equals` from throwing an exception to being marked as obsolete, and adds a new obsolete `Assert.ReferenceEquals` method. This prevents silent failures that would occur if these methods were removed entirely. ## Problem The original plan was to remove `Assert.Equals` in v4, but this…
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