Newlines added to content of <CompileDependsOn> and <CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn>

[franklin-ross]

When a file is added or removed removed, extra newlines are added to certain elements in the csproj file. It also seems to add more and more newlines if there are already newlines in there. For example I recently found over 3000 lines had been added, and I certainly hadn't added or removed that many files, which makes me think something is matching these newlines and then adding them back in twice when writing out to disk, or something similar.

For example:

  <PropertyGroup>
    <CompileDependsOn>

      $(CompileDependsOn);

      WebpackBuild;

    </CompileDependsOn>
    <CleanDependsOn>

      $(CleanDependsOn);

      WebClean

    </CleanDependsOn>
  </PropertyGroup>

and

  <PropertyGroup>
    <!-- Collects all files in ./app/bundled for packaging and deployment, whether they're in the
    project file or not. -->
    <CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn>

      $(CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn);

      CollectBundleOutput;

    </CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForPackageDependsOn>
    <CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForMsdeployDependsOn>

      $(CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForMsdeployDependsOn);

      CollectBundleOutput;

    </CopyAllFilesToSingleFolderForMsdeployDependsOn>
  </PropertyGroup>

[franklin-ross]

I think this was also causing an error when I tried to add/remove a couple of things in quick succession. From memory the getRoot() call was failing. I didn't look into it further, but I'm wondering whether it had something to do with the process taking a lot longer, and the second add/remove couldn't get a lock on the file, or something. It's probably not important if the original problem is fixed, although it would be nice if it would back off and retry a couple of times if the file can't be opened.

[gilluminate]

same issue for me with content inside of <PreBuildEvent>. Extension is unusable for me until this is fixed.

[superheri]

Can anything be done to fix this? This is really annoying since in big projects when you need to add many files the csproj is getting bigger fast and it is creating me conflicts with git.