Expose API error details for all failing calls in bootstrap workflow#20
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Add API error capture to all GitHub API calls that previously used 2>/dev/null to suppress errors. Now when any API call fails, the actual error message from the API is displayed in the log. - Capture API error for Cratis/AI tree fetch - Capture API errors for default branch, HEAD SHA, tree SHA, and subtree fetches (steps 1-3) per repository - Capture API errors for AI blob content fetch and target blob creation (step 9) - Capture API errors for second tree and second commit creation (step 9) Co-authored-by: einari <134365+einari@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Enhance error logging for Bootstrap workflow
Expose API error details for all failing calls in bootstrap workflow
Mar 8, 2026
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Several GitHub API calls in the bootstrap workflow silently discarded stderr (
2>/dev/null), so failures logged only a generic "could not do X" message with no indication of the actual cause.Changes
All previously-silent API calls now redirect stderr to a temp file and print the captured error on failure:
default_branch,head_sha,tree_sha, andsubtreefetches each surface the API error on failureBefore
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