Question

My company has an assembly versioning package that I’ve written in powershell and is distributed amongst my colleagues via our internal nuget feed.

There are a couple of template files which can be user-modified after the package in installed. These files are being included in the package which we generate via

nuget pack xxxx.csproj

We’ve done a little investigation and there files are not packaged when we change the Build Action to None.

Is there a way to tell nuspec to add the files to the project with Build Action set to None*?

Alternatively is there a way to tell nuget pack to not include certain files in the package in generates?

Answer 1

nuget pack will ignore any files or folders that start with period/full stop. So one easy way would be to rename your template files or the folder they are located in to start with a period/full stop if possible.