contentFiles don't flow transitively even when explicitly specified , if there is a projectReference involved

[rohit21agrawal]

If ProjectA references PackageA which references PackageB (with contentFiles), and all reference edges have PrivateAssets=none set on it, the contentFiles should flow to ProjectA. However, this is not the case.

UPDATE: turns out the scenario is this:

ProjectA -> ProjectB ->PackageB (with contentFiles)

ProjectA doesn't get contentFiles from PackageB.

[jainaashish]

do you have include=all on PackageB dependency listed in PackageA nuspec file?

[rohit21agrawal]

yes sir!

[nkolev92]

@rohit21agrawal

I can't reproduce this with SDK csproj Package Reference.

Did you try this with old csproj PR?

[rohit21agrawal]

updated title and description

[daryllabar]

According to the documentation, content files are implicitly excluded, and can't be overwritten: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/nuspec#dependencies-element

exclude

A comma-delimited list of include/exclude tags (see below) indicating of the dependency to exclude in the final package. The default value is build,analyzers which can be over-written. But content/ ContentFiles are also implicitly excluded in the final package which can't be over-written. Tags specified with exclude take precedence over those specified with include. For example, include="runtime, compile" exclude="compile" is the same as include="runtime".

Not sure why though.