Add skill for incremental building#53479
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Pull request overview
Adds internal Copilot guidance for running dotnet.Tests incrementally by rebuilding only changed projects and updating the redist SDK layout, and links that guidance from the repo Copilot instructions.
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- Added a new Copilot “skill” document describing an incremental
dotnet.Testsworkflow. - Updated
.github/copilot-instructions.mdto reference the new incremental test skill.
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| File | Description |
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| .github/copilot/skills/incremental-test.md | New documentation describing an incremental build/copy workflow to speed up dotnet.Tests runs. |
| .github/copilot-instructions.md | Adds a pointer to the new incremental test skill from the main Copilot instructions. |
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- State explicitly that the workflow uses Windows/PowerShell commands - Add -c Debug to all build commands for consistency with paths - Select single SDK version deterministically when multiple exist - Clarify that new/moved assemblies require a full build Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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When using agent to work on dotnet CLI, I don't want it to perform
.\build.cmdevery time it makes a change - that's very slow and I don't do that either when working on dotnet CLI, instead I just copy the DLLs manually once the redist layout is in place.