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Repeatedly deleting the same file in generated PRs

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
accessibility, tooling

Research direction

Start by reviewing the changes in PR 23, especially the repeated deletion of site/trends.html, then trace the scanner entry point that assembles generated pull requests. Determine why the same file is selected across closed PRs. Done means generated PRs no longer repeatedly include that deletion, with coverage for the behavior if an existing test location is found.

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Description

Several of the PR's generated (and now closed) as part of:

https://github.com/mgifford/o-hat-scanner

deleted the same file ‎site/trends.html‎

https://github.com/mgifford/o-hat-scanner/pull/23

Not sure how to address this, as I don't know what is wrong with ‎site/trends.html‎

Maybe it just should have been part of one of the pages scanned? Not sure.

But the accessibility scanner should be a little less trigger happy about including files to be deleted in the PRs that they are creating.

Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
374
Forks
42
Avg merge
1d 13h
Merged PRs (30d)
7

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