Retry transient GitHub API errors with backoff#8
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GitHub occasionally returns 502 "Unicorn" errors for valid API calls. Previously these were treated as permanent failures, causing incomplete results. Now all API calls retry up to 3 times with exponential backoff (2s, 4s, 8s) before giving up. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Retry warnings were polluting the report output. Successful retries are not noteworthy — only log them with --verbose. The "giving up" message stays at WARNING since that indicates incomplete results. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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api_call_with_retry()wrapper that retries up to 3 times with exponential backoff (2s, 4s, 8s) before giving upTest plan
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