title: Visual Studio Publish Profiles - Why not track in source control?
body: <p>I was exploring options for deploying my ASP.NET web app by creating a publish profile when I noticed that .pubxml files are included in this .gitignore file (which I had been using):</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio.gitignore" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio.gitignore</a></p>
  
  <p>Searching around, the reasoning seems to be that either references to the publish profile or references in the publish profile contain absolute paths or other information that may only be valid on the local dev machine at the time.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone confirm the reasoning behind this exclusion?</p>