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Exploring with assumed changes

--assume-changes replaces the Git diff entirely: the projects you name are treated as changed, and the graph is walked from there. Nothing on disk is touched, and no Git comparison happens.

Terminal window
dotnet affected describe --assume-changes DotnetAffected.Core
1 files have changed referenced by 1 projects
0 NuGet Packages have changed
5 projects are affected by these changes
0 projects were excluded
Changed Projects
Name                 Path
DotnetAffected.Core  /repo/src/DotnetAffected.Core/DotnetAffected.Core.csproj


Affected Projects
Name                        Path
dotnet-affected             /repo/src/dotnet-affected/dotnet-affected.csproj
dotnet-affected.Benchmarks  /repo/benchmarks/dotnet-affected.Benchmarks/dotnet-affected.Benchmarks.csproj
dotnet-affected.Tests       /repo/test/dotnet-affected.Tests/dotnet-affected.Tests.csproj
DotnetAffected.Core.Tests   /repo/test/DotnetAffected.Core.Tests/DotnetAffected.Core.Tests.csproj
DotnetAffected.Tasks        /repo/src/DotnetAffected.Tasks/DotnetAffected.Tasks.csproj

That answers “if I touch this, what has to be rebuilt?” before you touch it.

How projects are matched

Section titled “How projects are matched”

Each value is resolved against the project graph and matches when any of these holds:

  • it equals the project’s full path — absolute, or relative to --repository-path;
  • it equals the project’s ProjectName property, case-insensitively;
  • it equals the project file’s name without extension, case-insensitively.
Terminal window
# By name
dotnet affected --assume-changes DotnetAffected.Core


# By path relative to the repository
dotnet affected --assume-changes src/DotnetAffected.Core/DotnetAffected.Core.csproj


# Several at once
dotnet affected --assume-changes DotnetAffected.Core dotnet-affected

Combining with other options

Section titled “Combining with other options”

--assume-changes overrides change detection, so --from and --uncommitted have no effect alongside it. Everything else still applies: --exclude-output filters the result, --format and --output-name control what gets written, and --dry-run keeps it all on stdout.

Terminal window
dotnet affected --dry-run --assume-changes DotnetAffected.Core --exclude-output '\.Benchmarks\.csproj$'