In a .net solution, I want to add a reference to a project in github.
Is there a way to do this without the extra step of publishing the github project to nuget?
Could it be done by putting a nuget package into the git repo itself?
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1It is a good idea, but the current VS does not support that. – Lex Li Feb 18 '17 at 14:31
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Could it be done by putting a nuget package into the git repo itself?
No, the repo is for source code management, it is not a binary referential like a Nuget repo.
See "Installing nuget package from GitHub"
With Nuget, there is no way to take a pre-version from a git repository.
If you really don't want to publish the binary to a Nuget repo, then you are in source dependency, meaning you can add that GitHub repo as a submodule of your own Git code base, make your .net solution compile that submodule source code, and use the resulting package locally.
