visual studio 2019 - publish a web app that uses git publish the .git folder

Question

I have a web site developed in visual studio and SC is GIT.
when I publish the website to a folder - it is also publishing the old .svn and the new .git folders.
is there a way to tell publish to ignore these folders ?

Answer 1

Hi, @Dani Kaplan

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

What type of your project? I created an ASP .NET Core project and published it to a folder. The .git folder in the solution folder was not published to the folder.
You can refer to Exclude files and How to: Exclude files from the build.

Sincerely,
Peng
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Answer 2

this is an old asp.net (dot net framework) project.
used to be on TFS, now on GIT and i have both .svn and .git folders published when I deploy the project to a folder...

Dani