rasmus-z / snitch

A tool that help you find duplicate transitive package references.

Snitch

A tool that help you find transitive package references that can be removed.

Example

> snitch --tfm net462

Processing Foo.sln...
   -> Analyzing Foo (net462)
   -> Analyzing Bar (net462)
   -> Analyzing Baz (net462)
   -> Analyzing Qux (net462)
   -> Analyzing Zap (net462)

The following packages can be removed from Bar

   * Autofac (ref by Foo)

The following packages can be removed from Baz

   * Autofac (ref by Foo)

The following packages <might> be removed from Qux

   * Autofac 4.9.3
     Downgraded from 4.9.4 in Foo

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

Building Snitch from source

To build and run the tests, you will need Cake installed as a dotnet tool on your computer.

> dotnet tool install cake.tool -g

When Cake is installed you can build the solution (and run all tests) by calling it from the repository root.

> dotnet cake