(Not) Adding NuGet packages to GIT on ASP.NET

Question

Having worked with composer , npm and different others, developers don't upload dependencies nor binary files to source control. That being said, as my first time working with NuGet packages, I noticed they are being included by default ( dlls and exes ).

So either there is no command relative to npm install that will download every dependency listed on a file and I have to upload dlls and exe to source control, or this is done by default by visual studio as a mistake. Which one is it? If it does have a way to restore package, which one it is?

PS: I haven't made the first commit yet; waiting to exclude/untrack anything that doesn't need to be on source control

Answer 1

Generally you do not put NuGet packages in the source control. There is an option to allow NuGet to restore required packages as a part of the build process. Also you can restore those packages manually from the command line or from the UI, similar to npm.