Better diagnostic logging in RAR when marking CopyLocal=false
#1485 aperta il 15 dic 2016
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Sometimes it is very difficult to understand why some transitive dependencies are copied to the output directory while others aren't.
It would greatly help to improve logging in this code: https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/blob/xplat/src/XMakeTasks/AssemblyDependency/Reference.cs#L1226-L1247
Specifically, we already list all source items in the log: https://github.com/Microsoft/msbuild/blob/xplat/src/XMakeTasks/AssemblyDependency/ResolveAssemblyReference.cs#L1645 It would be nice to also print their Private metadata if present.
This way we can know which one specified their Private=false and let to exclusion. Otherwise we have to double-check in the log elsewhere what the metadata was. It's possible but hard to use.