microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows

Building M.RN takes longer and sometimes breaks incrementality

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Since Feb 28, 2022.

Area: Build Infrastructure Area: Developer Experience bug PackageReference Recent Regression Workstream: Developer Experience
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Description

When we added PackageReference, we added two unconditional passes to restore every project upon every build first (we restore as PackageReference and then as packages.config).

This has 2 effects:

  • makes the build slower: we end up spending ~30s-1m longer, just to get started on the real build, on every build
  • it looks like sometimes msbuild writes despite nothing having changed; this breaks incremental builds, requiring rebuilding files that haven't changed

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