NuGet - repositories.config

Question

NuGet newbie question-
I saw repositories.config being added in NuGet packages folder.
Can anyone please guide me what is the purpose of this file?

Thank you!

Answer 1

It's a file that's mostly a NuGet implementation detail, and should not be dealt with directly (it may go away or change in the future).

But for reference, it contains a list of paths that point to all the packages.config in the solution. Typically there is one per project that uses NuGet.

Answer 2

David Ebbo's answer is from 2011, and the official advice keeps changing between versions.

Here's where we stand in 2015, for NuGet 2.7+ with the 'Automatic Package Restore' (recommended) workflow

I'm paraphrasing, but basically the advice is:

Remove packages/repositories.config from source control. We'll re-generate it anyway.

...unless it somehow breaks on your machine. Then do add it to source control.

This hint comes from the section on ignoring files in git:

# Ignore NuGet Packages *.nupkg # Ignore the packages folder **/packages/* 

And the important part:

[...]

# Uncomment if necessary however generally it will be regenerated when needed #!**/packages/repositories.config