fix: download large benchmarks file

[vbreuss]

This PR fixes an issue with downloading large benchmark files by switching from GitHub's Contents API to direct raw file downloads. The GitHub Contents API has size limitations that were preventing proper retrieval of large benchmark files.

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR fixes an issue with downloading large benchmark files by switching from GitHub's Contents API to direct raw file downloads. The GitHub Contents API has size limitations that were preventing proper retrieval of large benchmark files.

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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🚀 Benchmark Results

Details

BenchmarkDotNet v0.14.0, Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (Noble Numbat)

AMD EPYC 7763, 1 CPU, 4 logical and 2 physical cores

.NET SDK 8.0.414

[Host] : .NET 8.0.20 (8.0.2025.41914), X64 RyuJIT AVX2
Job=InProcess  Toolchain=InProcessEmitToolchain  IterationCount=15

LaunchCount=1  WarmupCount=10

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Gen0	Gen1	Allocated
Bool_aweXpect	231.0 ns	2.41 ns	2.14 ns	0.0300	-	504 B
Bool_FluentAssertions	249.1 ns	2.61 ns	2.44 ns	0.0567	-	952 B
Bool_TUnit	908.2 ns	9.13 ns	8.54 ns	0.1431	-	2408 B
Equivalency_aweXpect	303,345.5 ns	1,445.02 ns	1,351.67 ns	20.0195	0.9766	335556 B
Equivalency_FluentAssertions	2,199,471.1 ns	23,787.58 ns	21,087.07 ns	273.4375	46.8750	4584416 B
Equivalency_TUnit	704,995.8 ns	4,103.62 ns	3,637.75 ns	51.7578	2.9297	880545 B
Int_GreaterThan_aweXpect	254.7 ns	1.77 ns	1.57 ns	0.0486	-	816 B
Int_GreaterThan_FluentAssertions	252.9 ns	3.95 ns	3.70 ns	0.0730	-	1224 B
Int_GreaterThan_TUnit	1,235.7 ns	11.62 ns	10.87 ns	0.1774	-	2984 B
ItemsCount_AtLeast_aweXpect	507.3 ns	4.81 ns	4.27 ns	0.0868	-	1464 B
ItemsCount_AtLeast_FluentAssertions	505.8 ns	7.40 ns	6.93 ns	0.1192	-	2008 B
ItemsCount_AtLeast_TUnit	17,304.4 ns	137.38 ns	128.51 ns	1.6174	-	27480 B
String_aweXpect	435.4 ns	4.10 ns	3.83 ns	0.0734	-	1232 B
String_FluentAssertions	484.0 ns	6.33 ns	5.61 ns	0.1287	-	2168 B
String_TUnit	1,260.0 ns	11.32 ns	10.59 ns	0.1831	-	3072 B
StringArray_aweXpect	1,817.7 ns	6.65 ns	5.89 ns	0.1717	-	2888 B
StringArray_FluentAssertions	1,308.9 ns	9.23 ns	8.18 ns	0.2480	-	4152 B
StringArray_TUnit	3,340.1 ns	21.52 ns	19.07 ns	0.3128	-	5296 B
StringArrayInAnyOrder_aweXpect	2,176.6 ns	18.66 ns	16.54 ns	0.1831	-	3080 B
StringArrayInAnyOrder_FluentAssertions	151,923.1 ns	563.70 ns	527.28 ns	3.4180	-	63787 B
StringArrayInAnyOrder_TUnit	4,047.9 ns	39.23 ns	36.70 ns	0.3815	-	6488 B

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👽 Mutation Results

aweXpect

Details

File	Score	Killed	Survived	Timeout	No Coverage	Ignored	Compile Errors	Total Detected	Total Undetected	Total Mutants

The final mutation score is NaN%

Coverage Thresholds: high:80 low:60 break:0

aweXpect.Core

Details

File	Score	Killed	Survived	Timeout	No Coverage	Ignored	Compile Errors	Total Detected	Total Undetected	Total Mutants

The final mutation score is NaN%

Coverage Thresholds: high:80 low:60 break:0

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This is addressed in release v2.24.0.