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This pull request updates the Flutter repository documentation by adding guidelines on PR sizing in Tree-hygiene.md, introducing agent instructions in AGENTS.md, and documenting comprehensive code conventions and a hermetic test checklist in README.md. The review feedback suggests explicitly advising against default cases in exhaustive switch statements to ensure compiler enforcement, and adding the (entity) parameter to ErrorHandlingFileSystem.deleteIfExists in AGENTS.md for consistency.
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Hey @bkonyi I had a few more updates (like make the AGENTS file smaller), can you review again? |
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The flutter_tools
READMEexplains how to run and debug the tool but not how to write code for it. The conventions reviewers have been asking for over the years (constructor injection instead ofglobals,testWithoutContext, oneMemoryFileSystem.test()per test,FakeProcessManager,throwToolExitwith a remediation hint etc) weren't written down anywhere.This adds them to
packages/flutter_tools/README.mdas a "Code conventions" section and a "Hermetic test checklist" under "Writing tests". It also documents the full list of banned imports and their wrappers thatforbidden_imports_testenforces, and adds a note to runflutter update-packagesafter editingpubspec.yaml.Adds a short
packages/flutter_tools/AGENTS.mdthat points to the README so coding agents pick the rules up when editing files in this directory.Also adds a paragraph to
Tree-hygiene.mdabout keeping unrelated changes in separate PRs so a revert doesn't take both.Pre-launch Checklist
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