With MyGet Build Services, it is very easy to create NuGet packages from source control. Link a GitHub, BitBucket or CodePlex project to your MyGet feed and we’ll take care of building it and publishing generated packages to that feed. But which packages are added to your feed?

By default, MyGet will add all NuGet packages generated during build to your feed, as long as they are created in a folder named other than packages. The reason for this is that the packages folder is reserved by NuGet itself and may contain packages that were used during the build process and are not necessarily to be added to your feed. When creating a batch-based build, make sure to generate packages in a folder not named packages. A good example folder name could be output.

How to be selective about this? Is it possible to specify which packages are added to your feed? Well yes! To override the default behaviour, a series of wildcard matches can be specified in the build source configuration. When omitted, all packages generated during build will be pushed to your feed. When specified, only packages matching any of the specified package names or wildcards will be pushed to your feed.

In the above example, all package names matching Google*.nupkg or Newtonsoft* will be added to your feed.

Happy packaging!