Snitch
A tool that help you find duplicate transitive package references.
Install / Use
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<img src="/src/icon.png" height="30px"> Snitch
A tool that help you find transitive package references that can be removed.
Example
> snitch --tfm net462
Results in:
<!-- snippet: Solution.Default.verified.txt --><a id='snippet-Solution.Default.verified.txt'></a>
Analyzing...
Analyzing Snitch.Tests.Fixtures.sln
Analyzing Foo...
Analyzing Bar...
Analyzing Baz...
Analyzing Qux...
Analyzing Zap...
Analyzing Quux...
Analyzing Quuux...
Analyzing Thud...
Analyzing Thuuud...
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ Packages that can be removed from Bar: │
│ ┌──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Package │ Referenced by │ │
│ ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ Autofac │ Foo │ │
│ └──────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
│ Packages that can be removed from Baz: │
│ ┌──────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Package │ Referenced by │ │
│ ├──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ Autofac │ Foo │ │
│ └──────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
│ Packages that might be removed from Qux: │
│ ┌───────────┬───────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Package │ Version │ Reason │ │
│ ├───────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ Autofac │ 4.9.3 │ Downgraded from 4.9.4 in Foo │ │
│ └───────────┴───────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
│ Packages that might be removed from Zap: │
│ ┌──────────────────┬──────────┬───────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Package │ Version │ Reason │ │
│ ├──────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ Newtonsoft.Json │ 12.0.3 │ Updated from 12.0.1 in Foo │ │
│ │ Autofac │ 4.9.3 │ Downgraded from 4.9.4 in Foo │ │
│ └──────────────────┴──────────┴───────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
│ Packages that might be removed from Thuuud: │
│ ┌─────────────────┬──────────────┬────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Package │ Version │ Reason │ │
│ ├─────────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────────┤ │
│ │ Newtonsoft.Json │ 13.0.2-beta2 │ Updated from 12.0.1 in Foo │ │
│ └─────────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────────────────┘ │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
<sup><a href='/src/Snitch.Tests/Expectations/Solution.Default.verified.txt#L1-L49' title='Snippet source file'>snippet source</a> | <a href='#snippet-Solution.Default.verified.txt' title='Start of snippet'>anchor</a></sup>
<!-- endSnippet -->Installation
> dotnet tool install -g snitch
Usage
Examine a specific project or solution using the first built target framework.
> snitch MyProject.csproj
Examine a specific project using a specific target framework moniker.
> snitch MyProject.csproj --tfm net462
Examine a specific project using a specific target framework moniker and return exit code 0 only if there was no transitive package collisions. Useful for continuous integration.
> snitch MyProject.csproj --tfm net462 --strict
Examine a specific project using a specific target framework moniker and make sure that the packages Foo and Bar are excluded from the result.
> snitch MyProject.csproj --tfm net462 --exclude Foo --exclude Bar
Examine a specific project using a specific target framework moniker and exclude the project OtherProject from analysis.
> snitch MyProject.csproj --tfm net462 --skip OtherProject
Examine a specific project or solution to make sure there are no pre-release package references.
> snitch MyProject.csproj --no-prerelease
Building Snitch from source
> dotnet tool restore
> dotnet cake
Icon
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