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The purpose of refs folder
See original GitHub issuedotnet publish command produces output that contains refs folder. This folder contains the same core assemblies that I have in the root publish folder plus more. Also it contains one more copy of my .exe file. Without this folder the application throws an error about missing files.
I wonder, what is the purpose of this folder and why the same files have to be deployed twice increasing the deployment size?
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@blackdwarf (is it too soon to ping @spboyer, too 😄 ) I wish this (and this type of information) were over at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/index (perhaps a branch point to a doc under the “Composition” heading) on how the ✨ magic ✨ works; however, I realize that a lot will change moving to MSBuild/
csproj. Even if you considered such a doc, I can see why you would want to wait for a while.@eerhardt yes 1000% 😄