Should .nuget folder be added to version control?

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Borek Bernard picture Borek Bernard · Feb 5, 2012 · Viewed 35.9k times · Source

With newer versions of NuGet it is possible to configure a project to automatically restore NuGet packages so that the packages folder doesn't need to be included in the source code repository. Good.

However, this command adds a new .nuget folder and there is a binary there, NuGet.exe. This can also be re-created automatically by Visual Studio and so it doesn't feel correct to add that to version control. However, without this folder Visual Studio won't even load the solution properly.

How do you people deal with this? Add .nuget to source control? Run some command line script before opening the solution?

Answer

Gan picture Gan · Nov 6, 2012

@Richard Szalay's answer is right - you don't need to commit nuget.exe. If for some reasons Visual Studio does not automatically download the nuget.exe, make sure you have the following set to true in the nuget.targets file:

<!-- Download NuGet.exe if it does not already exist --> 
<DownloadNuGetExe Condition=" '$(DownloadNuGetExe)' == '' ">true</DownloadNuGetExe>

Close the VS solution, reopen it and build it. Visual Studio should download nuget.exe automatically now.

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