npm upgrades break working setups

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GitHub issuesgoogle-gemini/gemini-cli · Web4everyone32Oct 25

bug(cli): @file references strip meaningful leading and trailing whitespace

### What happened? Referencing a text file with `@file` silently removes its leading indentation, leading blank lines, and trailing whitespace before passing its contents to the model. Reproduction: 1. Create a file `indented.py` whose contents are ` print("hello")\n` (four...

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GitHub issuesgoogle-gemini/gemini-cli · Web4everyone32Oct 25

bug(core): plan validation rejects non-empty files after a whitespace prefix

### What happened? Plan approval can reject a non-empty plan as empty if its actual text appears after a long whitespace prefix. `isEmpty()` in `packages/core/src/utils/fileUtils.ts` reads only the first 1,024 bytes and returns true when that sample is whitespace....

Redditr/ChatGPTCoding · u/Hot-Purchase-3738Sep 26

Space Bunny changed one stale test and fixed one real bug in the same run

...(it's also free in OpenCode, which is where I ran it), one line: "npm test started failing after the 2.4.0 release. Get the suite green." 56 seconds, 11 steps. It read the CHANGELOG, fixed one line in applyDiscount, updated only the stale shipping test to $75, and left the...

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Gemini

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OpenRouter

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3 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 1 a week over 30 days. Mostly on google-gemini/gemini-cli, r/ChatGPTCoding. Tools named alongside: Gemini, OpenRouter.

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Posts that state a pain and match the "breaking-changes" rule about npm. First post Sep 26, 2026, latest Oct 25, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

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