Add .meteor/dev_bundle to git or not?

[merlinpatt]

Today, I added the eslint-import-resolver-meteor package and shortly after a new file called meteor/dev_bundle showed up.

Should I add this to git for version control?

What does it do?

[benjamn]

You should not add it to version control:

Meteor creating a dev_bundle folder inside .meteor/dev_bundle

It’s a symbolic link to the dev_bundle associated with the release specified by .meteor/release. This helps tools like meteor npm and meteor node find the right versions of npm and node to run for your app (see this issue for an example of why that’s important). Note: on Windows, .meteor/dev_bundle may be a file containing an absolute path, instead of a symbolic link to that path. In other words, .meteor/dev_bundle is very much intentional, it’s not an actual directory (though it may look like…