DotNetCliToolReference restore does not seem to be implicit

[Aethon]

Starting with .NET Core 2.0, you don't have to run dotnet restore because it's run implicitly by all commands that require a restore to occur, such as dotnet new, dotnet build and dotnet run.

At 2.0.4 and 2.0.7, DotNetCliToolReferences do not restore automatically. I have to run dotnet restore to get those to resolve. I cannot find documentation supporting this and have not found any issues raised. Is this expected behavior or should I file a bug? And which repo should the issue be reported in?

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• ID: 0b256dc4-c4ad-c115-f4e2-40310bc3505a
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• Content: dotnet restore command - .NET Core CLI
• Content Source: docs/core/tools/dotnet-restore.md
• Service: dotnet-core
• GitHub Login: @mairaw
• Microsoft Alias: mairaw

[mairaw]

Hi @Aethon. Let's first confirm the right behavior and see if this is a doc issue or a product issue.

@KathleenDollard @livarcocc can you guys help with this question?

[livarcocc]

@rrelyea to comment.

[mairaw]

@rrelyea can you please help?

[nkolev92]

There are no issues that I'm aware of in this space.
DotnetCLIToolReference restore is similar to any project restore.

I verified that quickly by running:

dotnet new mvc
dotnet build /v:n

In logs I see

Committing restore...
         Tool assets file has not changed. Skipping assets file write. Path: C:\Users\user\.nuget\packages\.tools\microsoft.visualstudio.web.codegeneration.tools\2.0.4\netcoreapp2.0\project.assets.json
         Restore completed in 45.63 ms for C:\Users\user\Documents\Code\NuGet\Test\newtooltest\newtooltest.csproj.

This indicates that the tools did get restored.

Maybe the customer is facing some other problems?

[mairaw]

@Aethon can you provide more information on your problem?

[KathleenDollard]

@nkolev92 did you test in a 2.0 version?

@Aethon could you install .NET Core 2.1 and try this again?

[Aethon]

It was 2.0.x. I will try 2.1 and report that it works or gone a replication path. Thanks!

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[JRAlexander]

@Aethon, did it work? Thanks!

[mairaw]

Closing this issue due to the lack of response.