tfs - tfIgnore does not work for me in Visual Studio 2013

Question

I am pulling my hair out with trying to get tfIgnore to work in Visual Studio 2013.

I followed the instructions here: bottom of this article and excluded my packages file like this:

folderAfolderBpackages 

The path looks fine and is what Visual Studio generated for me. I have checked the file in to the place where Visual Studio generated it and tried rebuilding but the packages all still appear in my included changes folder in pending changes.

I've tried all sorts of other combinations of file locations and filespec commands but it never seems to do anything.

Am I missing something obvious?

Answer 1

A bug in NuGet may be causing the problem. This is the workaround:

1. Create a .nuget folder in your solution folder, if it doesn't exist.

2. In the .nuget folder, create a file nuget.config with this content:

<configuration>
    <solution>
        <add key="disableSourceControlIntegration" value="true" />
    </solution>
</configuration>