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dotnet watch run watches all files under wwwroot even with exclusion list

See original GitHub issue

Describe the bug

Running on .NET 5.0.201, dotnet watch run reloads every time a JS or CSS files is modified in wwwroot even though I have no configuration that would tell it to do so.

dotnet watch --list lists all files under wwwroot as well.

Adding

  <ItemGroup>
    <Watch Remove="wwwroot\**\*" />
  </ItemGroup>

doesn’t help.

To Reproduce

I can reproduce the issue with a brand new project:

>dotnet new mvc
>dotnet watch --list
H:\RRL\Test\Controllers\HomeController.cs
H:\RRL\Test\Models\ErrorViewModel.cs
H:\RRL\Test\Program.cs
H:\RRL\Test\Startup.cs
H:\RRL\Test\Test.csproj
H:\RRL\Test\Views\Home\Index.cshtml
H:\RRL\Test\Views\Home\Privacy.cshtml
H:\RRL\Test\Views\Shared\Error.cshtml
H:\RRL\Test\Views\Shared\_Layout.cshtml
H:\RRL\Test\Views\Shared\_ValidationScriptsPartial.cshtml
H:\RRL\Test\Views\_ViewImports.cshtml
H:\RRL\Test\Views\_ViewStart.cshtml
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\css\site.css
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\favicon.ico
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\js\site.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap-grid.css
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap-grid.css.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap-grid.min.css
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap-grid.min.css.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap-reboot.css
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap-reboot.css.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap-reboot.min.css
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap-reboot.min.css.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap.css
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap.css.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap.min.css
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\css\bootstrap.min.css.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\js\bootstrap.bundle.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\js\bootstrap.bundle.js.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\js\bootstrap.bundle.min.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\js\bootstrap.bundle.min.js.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\js\bootstrap.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\js\bootstrap.js.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\js\bootstrap.min.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\dist\js\bootstrap.min.js.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\bootstrap\LICENSE
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation-unobtrusive\jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation-unobtrusive\jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation-unobtrusive\LICENSE.txt
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation\dist\additional-methods.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation\dist\additional-methods.min.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation\dist\jquery.validate.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation\dist\jquery.validate.min.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation\LICENSE.md
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery\dist\jquery.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery\dist\jquery.min.js
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery\dist\jquery.min.map
H:\RRL\Test\wwwroot\lib\jquery\LICENSE.txt

### Exceptions (if any)
N/A

### Further technical details

.NET SDK (reflecting any global.json): Version: 5.0.201 Commit: a09bd5c86c

Runtime Environment: OS Name: Windows OS Version: 10.0.19042 OS Platform: Windows RID: win10-x64 Base Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\5.0.201\

Host (useful for support): Version: 5.0.4 Commit: f27d337295

.NET SDKs installed: 3.1.302 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 3.1.402 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.100 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.101 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.102 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.103 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk] 5.0.201 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET runtimes installed: Microsoft.AspNetCore.All 2.1.24 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.All] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 2.1.24 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.8 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 3.1.11 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.3 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 5.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.24 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.8 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 3.1.11 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.3 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.NETCore.App 5.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.6 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.8 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 3.1.11 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 5.0.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 5.0.2 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 5.0.3 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App] Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 5.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

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Created 2 years ago
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Top GitHub Comments

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pranavkmcommented, Mar 23, 2021

You’ll want to exclude Content items from being watched. Removing it doesn’t quite work because they’re not in the Watch item group during global evaluation:

<ItemGroup>
     <!-- exclude all Content items from being watched -->
    <Content Update="@(Content)" Watch="false" />
</ItemGroup>

I’ve added a note to our docs to include this snippet: https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/pull/21858/files

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msftbot[bot]commented, Aug 12, 2021

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