Commands

Command	Subject	Network
redecker inspect	A package version	Yes
redecker check	The versions a repository declares	No
redecker hints	Pin rationales and their exit conditions	Only with --check

redecker inspect

Reads a package version and checks it for problems restore cannot see.

redecker inspect <package> --to <version> [--from <version>]

Supplying --from enables the checks that only mean something across an upgrade, such as RDK0002.

$ redecker inspect SQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite3 --from 2.1.11 --to 2.1.12
error RDK0001: buildTransitive/net461/SQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite3.targets references
    runtimes/win-arm/native/e_sqlite3.dll, which the package does not contain

Exit code is 1 when any finding is an error, 0 otherwise, and 2 if the package could not be found.

redecker check

Checks that the versions a repository declares agree with each other. Runs entirely offline — it reads MSBuild files and nothing else.

redecker check [path]

path may be a project, a Directory.Packages.props, or a directory to search. Versions are assembled across every file before being judged, because central package management declares them in one place while projects may pin their own, and a family split across two files is exactly the case worth catching.

redecker hints

Lists the pin hints a repository carries.

redecker hints [path] [--check] [--github-token <token>]

Without --check it is a listing. With it, every recorded exit condition is re-evaluated and pins that have outlived their reason are reported, with a non-zero exit so CI notices:

$ redecker hints Directory.Packages.props --check
Directory.Packages.props:3 SQLitePCLRaw.bundle_e_sqlite3 2.1.11
    kind: UpstreamBug
    until: package-assets-intact(SQLitePCLRaw.lib.e_sqlite3@2.1.12)
    status: StillRequired - 2.1.12 still has 1 dangling asset reference(s)

--github-token is only needed for conditions that read an upstream issue tracker; it defaults to $GITHUB_TOKEN. Without a token GitHub allows 60 requests an hour, which is not enough from a shared CI address.