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Reputation: 55

Why windows C# projects contain nuget executable in .nuget folder?

I don't understood the overall scheme on how NuGet is used on windows platform (because I never saw this, I work with Linux and monodevelop).
In many windows projects, there is a .nuget folder in repository, like https://github.com/YAFNET/YAFNET/tree/master/yafsrc/.nuget
In this folder there is a nuget.exe executable.

Why it is necessary to add executables to source code control(SCC)?
How NuGet build tool differs from all other binary tools like compilers, which are not included into SCC?
Why other package managers like paludis are not added to SCC, but nuget does?

What are exactly the reasons to put NuGet to SCC?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 592

Answers (1)

Matt Ward
Matt Ward

Reputation: 47907

It is not necessary to add NuGet.exe to source control.

The reason some projects have .nuget/NuGet.exe, with a set of other MSBuild files, is to use the MSBuild based package restore. The MSBuild based package restore will run NuGet.exe at build time to download any missing packages.

The MSBuild based package restore has been deprecated by the NuGet team.

Visual Studio with recent versions of the NuGet Package Manager will automatically restore NuGet packages before building the project. If you need to restore NuGet packages on a build server you can use NuGet.exe to restore the NuGet packages by running a command line similar to:

NuGet.exe restore YourSolution.sln

Upvotes: 1

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